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EU ministers agree on Iraqi refugees: Out British proposals coolly received European Union law enforcement ministers meeting in northern Greece agreed yesterday to spend 100 million euros to create centers for refugees fleeing Iraq - outside the EU.

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Greece favors common Union defense but no break with US

Greece endorses the idea of a European Union summit on defense but said that any move toward closer cooperation among the 15 union members must involve dialogue with the United States...

First N17 survivor takes stand

The first surviving November 17 target to testify during the ongoing trial of 19 suspected members of the extreme left-wing terrorist group was unable yesterday to positively identify the man who shot him in the legs 14 years ago.

The civil service, in a nutshell

Politically motivated appointments of people who often lack the proper qualifications, an absence of control over the functioning of the civil service and a glut of laws, many of which are badly drafted, are the main evils of Greece's public sector...

Turkey wants Cyprus talks

ISTANBUL (AP) - Ankara wants to gather Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot leaders as well as representatives of Greece and Britain...

Local councils doing little to save water

Despite dwindling water reserves in many parts of Greece and widespread concern over future availability, just over 1 percent of local authorities surveyed by Thessaloniki University have taken concrete action...

IN BRIEF

Syntagma focus for today’s rally, Monday’s preparation of aid package : Athens and Piraeus Prefect Fofi Yennimata yesterday called on Athenians to join an anti-war protest at noon today...

Five face criminal proceedings : Criminal proceedings have been launched against five senior officials of a Public Power Corporation plant in Megalopolis...

Clocks forward on Sunday : Clocks go forward one hour...

Hijacking : A Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Ankara was hijacked late yesterday, the Anatolia news agency reported. The plane was hijacked after takeoff from Istanbul...

Unwanted : Two frigates carrying 75 French and German navy cadets are to anchor at the Salamina naval base on Monday after the Piraeus Port Authority yesterday refused to let the vessels dock at Piraeus...

More violations : Seven formations of Turkish fighter jets yesterday violated the Athens Flight Information Region seven times...

Flood protection : Anti-flood works along the Kifissos River, in Faliron and other flood-prone parts of Attica will have been completed by summer 2004...

Zimbabwe : The Foreign Ministry, in its role as European Union president, yesterday condemned last week’s crackdown...


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EDITORIAL

A new world The military campaign against Iraq has become a catalyst for geopolitical transformation. Washington has made no secret of its intention of refashioning the Middle East and imposing a global hegemony outside the existing international institutions that date back to World War II. It is precisely this move that has generated an unprecedented worldwide anti-war movement against the Bush administration.

COMMENTARY

Seeds of change Grim and gray, reality leaves no room for sanguine thought. Any optimism is quickly banished by images from the battlefield, the tears of civilians, and the extent of the humanitarian disaster. The course of the war - a far cry from the initial plans of a lightning strike that would clear the way for a quick victory by the US-British forces - leaves little room for optimism. Now, no one, not even the planners of the war, believes that it will end soon.

OPINION

Hiding nasty truths The USA «is making every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm,» US President George W. Bush reassured conscripts in Florida earlier this week. Several hours had already passed since two cruise missiles struck a busy market in a poor neighborhood in Baghdad, «liberating» dozens of Iraqis from their futile lives.

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