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Fire claims more lives and homes Bodies of two elderly women found near Aigion; tens of houses destroyed by continuing blazes Another two people were found burned to death in the northern Peloponnese yesterday as wildfires continued to ravage the area around the town of Aigion, leaving the prime minister to try to boost the morale of the overstretched fire service.

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Athenians rate city EU’s dirtiest

Athenians display greater dissatisfaction with their quality of life - chiefly due to high pollution levels - than city dwellers elsewhere in Europe, according to a Eurobarometer survey...

Two prisoners found dead

Two inmates have been found dead in their cells at Malandrino Prison, authorities said yesterday as they awaited the results of autopsies to determine how the inmates died...

Fat Tony headed for extradition

A court approved yesterday a request to extradite Australian drug fugitive Tony Mokbel to face murder charges in Melbourne and serve a nine-year sentence for drug trafficking...

Man stabs his son to death after argument

A 59-year-old man from Ioannina, northwestern Greece, was yesterday hospitalized in severe shock after fatally stabbing his 34-year-old son following an argument...

IN BRIEF

Tapping probe reaches conclusion but nobody will face charges : Investigating magistrate Panayiotis Petropoulos has concluded...

Parents of high school student challenge validity of English tests : The parents of a teenager who sat an English exam as part of this summer's university entrance...

Allegations could be examined again : The Athens Misdemeanors Council yesterday called for further investigation into abduction...

FYROM tourism : The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's decision to allow...

Clubs rapped : Athens prefectural officials brought 11 indictments against nightclub managers...

Moderate earthquake : An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale hit Ioannina...

Illegal immigrants : The coast guard yesterday detained 31 found traveling...

Patriarch plot : The Foreign Ministry yesterday described as «positive» reports...


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A prehistoric mastodon...
EDITORIAL

Averting another pension fund crisis There is yet another fire smoldering, apart from the blazes ravaging our forestland, and its rekindling will likely cause repercussions that Greek society is unable to tackle. The ratio of insured citizens to pensioners is worsening dramatically and the inevitable result, a few years from now, will be another pension fund crisis. The scale of the destruction wreaked by forest fires is the consequence of our past negligence...

COMMENTARY

A greener agenda If the prime minister agrees with the president of the republic that «protecting the environment is a matter of democracy,» then he ought to get his act together. Given that forest fires have become a daily phenomenon, Costas Karamanlis's response must be swift and drastic, on a tactical as well as a strategic level. The premier must start by setting up an independent environment ministry.

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