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Olympics law set out Legislation applies to shipping, signposting, dangerous materials The Culture Ministry yesterday brought legislation to Parliament sorting out the last loose ends concerning how Athens will function during the Olympic Games.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Commission warns Greece over deficit

The European Commission yesterday launched an «excessive deficit procedure» against Greece...

Soccer coach promises heroics

Fighting the defending European soccer champions in Lisbon tonight for a berth in the Euro 2004 semifinals, Greece's national soccer squad will do - or die like heroes...

NATO nod for Games security

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO has given the green light to reinforce security for the Athens Olympic Games via a range of means...

Potholes to cost councils dear?

Municipal and prefectural authorities may soon be forced to directly compensate motorists for injuries and damage to their vehicles suffered from use of Greece's often badly built and atrociously maintained road network.

Fourteen months after...

Fourteen months after closing down for a 6.5-million-euro refurbishment, the 108-year-old Diakofto-to-Kalavryta railway...

Wheelchair access to Acropolis by August

Disabled visitors will be provided with easy access to the capital's most popular tourist site ahead of the forthcoming Olympic and Paralympic games, following a new decision by top Culture Ministry officials.

IN BRIEF

Bill on EU-wide arrest warrant passes despite blanket opposition : Parliament yesterday passed anti-terrorism legislation adopting the EU-wide arrest warrant on the strength of New Democracy's governing majority...

Athens condemns terrorist attacks, PM to join NATO summit on Sunday : The government yesterday condemned the bomb attacks in Turkey which killed four people...

Venizelos angry at airport check : MP and Former Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos, one of the opposition PASOK party's most senior officials, protested virulently...

Tempe accident : A day after reducing murder charges against a truck driver involved in Greece's worst traffic accident to a misdemeanor...

Hospital strike : State hospitals in Athens and Piraeus will deal only with emergencies between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. today because of a work stoppage...

Flame's travels : Torchbearer Christian Gobe, a handicapped basketball player from Geneva, carries the Olympic Flame over the city's Mont Blanc Bridge yesterday...

Offshore orgies : Police on Cyprus said yesterday they were investigating claims that British and Scandinavian tourists are involved in organized sex romps...


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A conservator walks...
EDITORIAL

US in Iraq Fifteen months after the US military campaign, the situation in Iraq and the degree of American involvement now paint an extremely grim picture. This bleak outlook is upheld by most of the leading newspapers in the West and it is hard to disagree, as only a week before the scheduled power shift to the Iraqi authorities, resistance remains strong and the death toll is soaring. More than 85 people were killed yesterday as insurgents launched bloody assaults in five cities.

COMMENTARY

A new role for NATO The collapse of the communist states in Europe threw NATO into an existential crisis. A huge political and military apparatus was all of a sudden up in the air, finding itself with no enemy or mission. However, critics who rushed to say that the alliance had been assigned to the dustbin of history underestimated the fact that apart from containing the Warsaw Pact, NATO played an additional role: It was the vehicle through which Washington could exercise its hegemony on the Continent while also putting the brakes on Europe...

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