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Hundreds flee as wildfires wreak havoc Peloponnese, Cephalonia worst hit In one of the worst days for forest fires this summer, one person was killed and hundreds evacuated as firefighters battled 197 fronts, with blazes in the northern Peloponnese and on Cephalonia in particular causing widespread destruction.

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Summer deaths rise, smog thickens

Two more people have died from heat related health problems, bringing the total death toll this summer to 17...

Nicosia has hopes for Erdogan

The foreign ministers of Greece and Cyprus yesterday agreed that the re-election of Turkey's Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) could trigger...

Man arrested in check scam

Police have arrested an allged member of a gang suspected of copying bank checks of large companies and later cashing them...

Patients await scan decision

A move by the government to form a committee to decide if patients should be allowed to receive a high-tech scan that helps doctors diagnose...

Internet police avert girl’s suicide plans

An 11-year-old schoolgirl who told Internet chat-room visitors that she was planning to kill herself was traced...

IN BRIEF

JP Morgan asks pension funds to keep quiet about return deal : Investment bank JP Morgan has asked the four pension funds which bought a Greek government bond...

Two men caught in Thessaloniki with around 85 kilos of hash : Police in Thessaloniki said yesterday that they had arrested two 27-year-old men...

Proastiakos suffers in the heat : The heat wave this week has caused...

Grenade blast : A hand grenade exploded early yesterday at a dry-cleaning store...

Archbishop better : Archbishop Christodoulos, who last month had a tumor removed...

PASOK explosion : An improvised explosive device went off outside...

Contraband smokes : A 43-year-old Greek man has been arrested in Aspropyrgos...

Lake warning : The Thessaloniki Prefecture reminded people yesterday not to draw water...

Illegal immigrants : Police detained 26 at Kotili, near Xanthi in north eastern Greece, found hidden...


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George Michael...
EDITORIAL

Government under fire Forest fires have always plagued Greece in the summer season - and they will continue to do so. But the magnitude of the catastrophe mostly has to do with the successful or unsuccessful reaction of the state apparatus. This year's biblical catastrophe is largely due to the division of the Fire Service along party lines, a fact that is also proved by documents that have recently come to light.

COMMENTARY

Flawed measures It was first implemented in Allende's Chile: Citizens who submitted purchase receipts were granted tax breaks on the income they declared. To make things even more attractive, the state occasionally organized lotteries. The holder of the receipt with the lucky number would win a brand new car. Tax evasion, of course, continued unabated.

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