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Calm sought in Aegean

Greece cautions Turkey as hope dwindles for Greek F-16 pilot

Greece urged Turkey yesterday to stop unannounced military flights over the Aegean as hopes of finding a Greek pilot alive faded after his plane collided with a Turkish jet on Tuesday.

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Technology joins fight against fires

Firefighters struggled yesterday to get control of the first major brushfire in Attica this summer as officials presented a new high-tech system...

Acropolis project inches ahead

Three basic restoration programs on the Acropolis monuments are moving along on target and are expected to be completed by the end of the year...

Pakistanis in kidnap appeal

Five Pakistani migrants yesterday appealed against a decision by prosecutor Nikos Degaitis not to pursue six agents of the National Intelligence Agency...

User jailed for Simitis home shots

A drug addict who fired shots at the home of Costas Simitis when he was prime minister four years ago was jailed yesterday...

Flying fishermen dent red tuna populations

Soaring demand for sushi and shashimi in Japan has resulted in fisherman recruiting helicopters to help them spot...

IN BRIEF

Motorist killed after train slams into his car in central Greece : A 55-year-old man was killed yesterday when a train traveling...

Pregnant women will have to wear seat belts under new traffic rules : Pregnant women and people under 1.50 meters tall will have to wear...

EC president due in Athens Sunday : European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is to visit Athens...

Royal Dane : Denmark's Queen Margarethe II met with President Karolos Papoulias...

Booby prize : The Development Ministry yesterday imposed a fine...

Cypriot archbishop : The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus decided yesterday to hold...

Holdup : Two armed men held up a branch of Emporiki Bank...

Food fines : Piraeus prefectural authorities said yesterday that they had suspended...

Cannabis plants : Police yesterday located 43 cannabis trees in a mountainous area...

Fast track : Police in Pieria, northern Greece, said yesterday that they had arrested...


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French Prime...
EDITORIAL

Contending with an aggressive neighbor Tuesday's was a tragic accident which could almost be described as inevitable. However much we may have feared it, we all knew that it would happen some day. The successive flights over the Aegean by Turkish fighter jets, and the subsequently compulsory interceptions by Greek jets, increase the risk of such accidents and, unfortunately, also of an armed confrontation.

COMMENTARY

An end to our illusions The fatal incident in the Aegean, which resulted in the death of Captain Costas Iliakis, is no ordinary incident of incursion by Turkish aircraft and their interception by Greek fighter jets - with a dramatic conclusion. Nor was it simply a «training flight in international air space in the Mediterranean» that was «buzzed» by Greek fighter jets, as was claimed...

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