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Tractors poised for action Thessaly cotton farmers in position to block main national highway Hundreds of cotton farmers from Thessaly who are pressing for higher crop quotas took up position with their tractors on the main highway between northern and southern Greece, threatening to cut the country in two unless the government accedes to their demands.

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Police set targets for ‘effective’ year ahead

In a bid to build on the know-how gained during last year's Olympic Games, the government unveiled a set of measures yesterday to provide more effective policing around the country, including the extension of a pilot scheme introducing neighborhood officers.

Trial-fixing inquiry is expanding

Yet another judge is to face a disciplinary probe following allegations she was involved in a group that systematically perverted the course of justice, court sources said yesterday.

Roman work in Faliron stream

Last week's heavy rainfall in Athens has led to the discovery of a Roman marble statue which had been apparently dumped in a streambed in the southern suburbs, an archaeologist said yesterday.

Handout of Olympic gear past 1 mln mark

Some 1 million items of more than 8,000 types of surplus equipment from Olympic sites have so far been distributed to a variety of causes...

IN BRIEF

Stylianidis, Yushchenko agree to boost economic, political cooperation : Deputy Foreign Minister Evripidis Stylianidis and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko agreed...

Mayor launches new Athens service : Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis yesterday inaugurated the new immigrants' service...

Cyprus talks : Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos is due in Athens today for two days of talks...

Afghan unit : Greece is providing the international force in Afghanistan with a medical unit...

Firemen's trial : An Athens court yesterday started hearing the appeals of three fire service officers...

Snow problems : Snowfall caused problems across much of the road networks of Macedonia and Thrace yesterday...

Frantzis rebuffed : A Piraeus court yesterday rejected an appeal for parole by a man serving a life sentence...

Hash haul : Border police yesterday confiscated 137 kilos of cannabis discovered in Delvinaki...


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EDITORIAL

Ball in our court The talks between Republic of Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and the rest of the country's party leaders today and tomorrow are extremely important. Although developments toward a settlement on the Cyprus problem have stalled...

COMMENTARY

Exception is the rule The Shakespearean conclusion on the state of Denmark came out long ago: «There is something rotten...» In Greece, we seem to believe that it's not just «something» that is rotten, but the whole country. Hence, the only thing left to do is bury it or scatter its ashes. Some people, misled by delusions of some bygone grandeur, say that the nation's decline has been so steep that it no longer deserves to go by the name of Greece.

OPINION

Taming the monster Whatever objections there may be to the legal and technical «details» likely to undermine the effectiveness of the new media ownership law and even make it incompatible with European law, most citizens believe that something should finally be done about corruption in the relationships between political and business chiefs.

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