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‘Suspicious’ SARS case Initial tests on visiting Chinese businessman prove positive A 36-year-old Chinese businessman is being treated at Thessaloniki's Papanicolaou Hospital and initial tests suggest that this is the first probable case of serious acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Greece, Health Minister Costas Stefanis said yesterday.

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Baltic Sky mystery gets complicated

As Sudan and Tunisia protested that the huge cargo of explosives impounded by Greece on Sunday was perfectly legal, Athens stressed that its commandos had boarded the freighter carrying it because it had broken maritime law...

2004 tickets in high demand

Athens 2004 Olympics organizing officials said yesterday that demand for the first batch of tickets for the Games made available to the Greek and European public last month far exceeded supply, adding that 82 percent of all applications received had been from Greeks.

Call for Ocalan 13 acquittal

An Athens prosecutor yesterday called for charges to be dropped against 13 people accused of smuggling Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan into Greece in 1999.

CoE takes aim at Turk Cypriots

In a double rap to the Turkish-Cypriot leadership, the Council of Europe yesterday expressed «shock» at the human rights violations suffered by members of the Greek-Cypriot and Maronite communities in occupied northern Cyprus and called on Ankara to stop the colonization of Turkish-controlled territory on the island.

Thriasio mothers’ milk found rich in dioxins

Breast-fed babies in the heavily industrialized area of Aspropyrgos, on the western outskirts of Athens, are taking in high amounts of poisonous dioxins through their mothers' milk...

IN BRIEF

10 new member states defy USA in supporting war crimes court : Ten countries set to join the European Union next year have chosen to back the EU in its support of an international war crimes court...

19 face criminal charges, two more to be tried today : Nineteen youths arrested during extensive rioting in Thessaloniki on Saturday afternoon were yesterday released...

No cabs until tomorrow morning : Taxi drivers across the country today continue a 48-hour strike they started yesterday...

Samina charges : The Aegean Court of Appeals’ deputy prosecutor has proposed to the Aegean Appeals Council that five officers, two shipping firm officials and two Port Authority inspectors be tried on criminal charges...

Kokkalis suit : Russia’s National Athletics Institute has filed a suit with an Athens court against a firm named European Games Limited and against telecoms and software tycoon Socrates Kokkalis...

Strays debate : Officials of the central and local government and the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee (ATHOC) are to discuss Athens’s stray animal problem with veterinarians...

Robber burnt : Police in Athens were yesterday checking admissions to hospitals for a burns victim...

Price observatory : The prices for a range of products, calculated by the Development Ministry’s “price observatory,” can now be seen on TV...


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EDITORIAL

Mending fences Greek Prime Minister and head of the EU's rotating presidency Costas Simitis is currently on a visit to Washington where he is scheduled to meet with US President George W. Bush in what is hoped to constitute «the starting point for a new era in the strategic partnership between the United States and Europe,» the government spokesman said. Simitis is prepared to sign an agreement for the extradition to the US of European citizens who are accused of terrorist acts.

COMMENTARY

‘Explosive’ Platiyiali The seizure of the Baltic Sky cargo ship has brought Platiyiali, a tiny port near the western town of Astakos, to the headlines for the third time in 20 years. The history of the port is a classic example of the manner in which PASOK governments have designed, constructed and utilized the so-called big projects. Construction works for the port commenced at the beginning of the 1980s with a huge budget but a vague end-purpose. By the time the project was nearly over, we were told that Platiyiali was to become a scrapyard for junking ships. What is more, construction works were stepped up to benefit from the shipping crisis at the time.

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