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Gruevski stirs things up FYROM PM slams Greece and says he will not accept single-name solution Just days after United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz said he wants to step up name talks between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the neighboring country's prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, has sparked a new war of words.

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Suspects held in custody ‘too often’

One in four people awaiting trial in Greece are held in custody pending their hearing, often in violation of the right to be considered innocent...

Safety in numbers on Facebook

Some 400,000 Greeks who have created a page on the social networking website Facebook do not believe...

Cyclist killed on highway

A 70-year-old cyclist with a British passport was killed on Saturday on the national road near Nea Kifissia...

Amateur flyers safe after bumpy landing

Three members of a Thessaloniki flying club had a lucky escape on Saturday as they got away with only relatively minor injuries...

IN BRIEF

Man dies while painting at Aghios Dimitrios town hall : A 31-year-old laborer was killed yesterday while helping to paint the offices...

Questioning due today : Vassilis Palaiocostas, the criminal suspected of kidnapping businessman Giorgos Mylonas...

Ileia memorial : Relatives of dozens of people killed during last summer's forest fires in Ileia...

Deadly argument : A 38-year-old man allegedly shot his partner with a hunting rifle...

Efthymiou all-clear : PASOK MP Petros Efthymiou was discharged from Evangelismos Hospital...

Trafficking arrests : Four members of a suspected human trafficking ring...

Pass marks : The Education Ministry is expected to announce by Wednesday...

Teenage arsonist : A 17-year-old has been arrested in Thesprotia...


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Silver medal... Alexandros Nikolaidis of Greece (l) fights with Cha Dong-min of South Korea...

EDITORIAL

The time is now ripe for a clash The prime minister's appearance at the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 6 would appear to be his last chance to drag his party - and the country's political life in general - out of the quagmire in which it has recently found itself and give people some measure of hope for the future. A change that may still save this government from the disintegration that seems inevitable - under the burden of in-fighting within the ruling party - could be possible as long as the prime minister shows that he has a specific agenda for reform with a concrete timetable.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Writing on the wall Unsolicited graphic interventions on public and private property - graffiti - has a long and varied history in Greece, and it very much reflects on where society is. Visitors from more «orderly» countries, and those with a heightened need for aesthetic order, are often shocked by the barbarity of the writing and smudges on Greek walls, opening the eyes of the rest of us to a blight to which we have become desensitized. The vandalism may be a statement of an organized kind, such as when major political parties and football teams send their foot soldiers across cities, towns and the countryside with huge stocks of paint, disfiguring bridges, embankments and even country fountains with their primal message that they are everywhere and at the same time accountable to no one (this applies even to parties when they are in power and should be upholding the rule of law, which forbids such vandalism).

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