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Cleanup of Asopos begins Firms dumping waste into the river will be punished, minister says Bulldozers yesterday started clearing up the riverbed of the heavily polluted Asopos, in central Greece, as Environment and Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias pledged to purge the toxic water believed to be posing a cancer risk to local residents.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

PASOK leader race in spotlight

PASOK leader George Papandreou was yesterday preparing the speech he will deliver in Parliament today...

Fire recovery to take two decades

Disastrous fires that swept through southern Greece last month destroyed more than 97,000 hectares of forest...

Patrols deter migrant influx

Thousands of illegal immigrants have been stranded on Turkish shores for more than three months...

Law must ‘go easy’ on users

The outgoing head of the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA) Constantinos Ballas told...

A six-vehicle pile-up...

Bus passengers wander along Attiki Odos yesterday...

Serial robber on tour of Greece’s courtrooms

Until recently he was Greece's most wanted criminal, but now convicted...

IN BRIEF

Senior US official urges UN to appoint new envoy for peace talks : US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns yesterday called...

Envoy to summon diplomats from Athens, Skopje to review name issue : The United Nations envoy appointed to mediate...

Psychiatrist convicted for seeking bribe : A psychiatrist from Thessaloniki yesterday received a suspended jail sentence...

Shot dead : A shooting outside an apartment building in Nea Ionia...

Ancient foundations : Authorities in northern Greece have begun assessing the damage caused to an archaeological site...

Trial set : The trial of former Competition Commission member Panayiotis Adamopoulos is scheduled to start...

Slim chance : Two slimming centers in Piraeus have been shut down for six months and ordered to pay...

Gun smugglers : Two Bulgarian nationals were yesterday remanded for trial in Thessaloniki...


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EDITORIAL

Ombudsman for the environment The measures announced yesterday by Giorgos Souflias aimed at cleaning up the Asopos River and Lake Koroneia and punishing polluters are all in the right direction. It was one of the few occasions that the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works justified its environmental component. But the country has many more environmental wounds to heal.

COMMENTARY

Backpedaling on the name The recent incident at the UN General Assembly came as a reminder that Greece must finally speak in plain language on the Macedonia name dispute. In the pre-election TV debate, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis pledged that unless a mutually acceptable solution is reached, Greece will block FYROM's accession to NATO.

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