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Athens, Nicosia back UN plan Leaders agree on common strategy, stressing that rejected blueprint remains basis for solution President Tassos Papadopoulos and Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis met in Athens yesterday to discuss the next steps in efforts to solve the Cyprus problem and stressed that they supported UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's blueprint for the island's reunification.

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2004 security bill set to exceed 1 bln euros

The security budget for the Athens Olympics has climbed to 1 billion euros ($1.19 billion)...

Motorists’ Olympic tribulations

Motorists in the capital are to get a full foretaste of the hellish traffic conditions expected during the August Olympics...

Roof slide given new deadline

Despite delays in the final sliding of a massive steel-and-polycarbonate roof into place over the main Athens Olympic stadium, the International Olympic Committee has granted constructors an extra three weeks to complete the project...

Quake under Antirio bridge

A strong earthquake yesterday morning struck the site where Greece's longest suspension bridge is being built...

Runaway schoolboys’ journey ends at border

Two teenage schoolmates who fled their homes in southern Germany five days ago fearing parental wrath over their poor marks were stopped at Greece's northern border yesterday...

IN BRIEF

Prosecutor gets data on 'irregularities,' committee to probe legal reform : Athens prosecutor Dimitrios Papangelopoulos, who is handling an investigation into alleged irregularities in defense procurements...

Minister calls for captain's release after Spain relaxes restrictions : Merchant Marine Minister Manolis Kefaloyiannis yesterday called for the immediate release of the Greek captain of the Prestige...

Today's 12-5 p.m. strike 'illegal' : A Piraeus court yesterday deemed illegal a work stoppage due to suspend services on the Piraeus-Kifissia (ISAP) urban electric railway...

Clinic fire : A 44-year-old patient of a psychiatric clinic in Thessaloniki's Panorama district was burnt to death...

Flying visit : A restored 1930s Dornier 24 ATT seaplane lands at Athens Airport on Tuesday...

Free museums : Entry to state museums all over the country - apart from those closed for refurbishment ahead of the Olympics...

Thieving cashier : The Supreme Court yesterday upheld an earlier court ruling sentencing a Thessaloniki department store cashier...


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The new bishop of Eleftheroupolis...
EDITORIAL

Dismal finale Instead of a spectacular climax - a dismal finale. This is, unfortunately, the trajectory of the much-hyped Cultural Olympiad. Instead of a grandiose culmination, as pompously announced in the past, the Cultural Olympiad is dogged by a burgeoning wave of cancellations. The runup to the Olympics' Opening Ceremony has left much to be desired.

COMMENTARY

‘Ungrateful’ Cypriots Bypassing the fact that the Annan plan would not have guaranteed a workable and viable united Republic of Cyprus but an insecure client state, fierce supporters of the UN blueprint in Athens continue to assail the 76 percent of Greek Cypriots who voted against the plan. Their attacks come thick and fast: «What do Greek Cypriots eventually want? If they don't want a settlement they should say so. The 'no' vote will get us into trouble. What else do they expect from Greece?

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