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Unrest hits central Athens Anarchists strike in Exarchia in solidarity with disgruntled prison inmates A group of some 80 suspected anarchists went on the rampage through central Athens yesterday and attacked cars, shops and ministers' offices while chanting slogans in solidarity with protesting prison inmates.

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Minister clinging on to his position

Labor Minister Savvas Tsitouridis survived questioning by opposition MPs yesterday, as sources suggested...

Bomb hoax closes US Embassy

Anti-terrorism police sealed off the US Embassy in Athens yesterday and searched the surrounding area...

Burning trash provokes split

The government and local authorities appeared to be at loggerheads yesterday about how to handle Attica's garbage problem...

Scheme to spray pines extended

A government scheme to spray Attica's pines with insecticide, in a bid to rid the trees of a lethal sap-sucking insect...

Two performers hang suspended...

Two performers hang suspended in the air by ropes against the backdrop...

One in four children needs to burn off fat

Obesity is a «ticking time bomb» for Greek children, doctors from the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki warned...

IN BRIEF

Privacy watchdog asks ministry to stop religion and origin queries : Greece's privacy watchdog has asked the Interior Ministry to stop asking...

Two suspected drug addicts sought in connection with double killing : Police are looking for two suspected drug addicts in connection with the alleged murder...

Rise caused by immigration : Greece's population increased by 43,900 this year, according to statistics made public yesterday...

Bear necessities : Conservationists have placed a tracking collar around the neck of a 180-kilo brown bear...

Kos traffickers : Two residents of the eastern Aegean island of Kos have been arrested after being caught...

Cyprus bases : Britain's Minister for Europe Geoff Hoon said yesterday that London would be open...

Train collision : The driver of a car was injured yesterday when he crashed his vehicle into a train...

Arson attacks : Arsonists set fire to a branch of the National Bank in Zografou, eastern Athens, early yesterday...


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EDITORIAL

Prosecutor’s foot-dragging Ever since the pension funds scandal first broke, the conservative administration has shown that it possesses the requisite political will to shed ample light on the affair. A first indication of the New Democracy government's determination to crack down on graft came with its handling of the Mevgal blackmail case. However, the judiciary's reflexes still fall short of those of the administration.

COMMENTARY

Mixed legacy The dead are judged according to their deeds and Boris Yeltsin, the late Russian president, is no exception. The obituaries in the Western media praised the «hero of democracy» against the backdrop of that historic August 1991 image in which he is pictured on a tank, in defiance of the coup that accelerated the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Yeltsin's idealized depiction often comes with the demonization of his successor Vladimir Putin, a man usually blamed for the departure from that brief flowering of democracy to the hard winter of old-style Russian authoritarianism.

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