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Beach protest grows Hellenikon mayor keeps up hunger strike as support increases Support grew yesterday for Christos Kortzidis, the mayor of Hellenikon, southern Athens, as hundreds of protestors and several professional bodies backed his continuing hunger strike, which is aimed at defending the public's right to free access to beaches.

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Expansion in Plaka irks residents

Residents of the bustling Plaka district in central Athens expressed concern yesterday at suggestions that the government intends to change zoning laws....

Greeks top list of EU corpulent

Greeks are the most obese people in the EU, with one in three men and 25 percent of woman considered to be overweight...

Strict smoking bans sought

Extending a ban on smoking to all public places, including public transport, shopping malls and beaches is the only way to wean Greeks off their dangerous addiction...

Seventh hiker’s body is found

Rescue workers yesterday found the body of a 37-year-old hiker in the Lousios River in the southern Peloponnese where another six hikers died last Saturday in a flash flood.

Southern extension of metro is on track

Following the opening of a new metro extension to the west side of Athens on Saturday...

IN BRIEF

Remaining two funds agree to start talks with JP Morgan : The remaining two of the four pension funds that bought into an overpriced 280-million-euro state bond agreed yesterday to discuss reselling it...

Appeal prosecutors point to mechanical problems in sinking : The Express Samina ferry, which sank off Paros in September 2000 with the loss of 82 lives, may have been caused by mechanical failure...

Man dies working on father's home : A 35-year-old Thessaloniki man was electrocuted...

Strangling suspected : A 36-year-old woman found dead at her home in Thessaloniki...

ATM raid : Robbers removed a cash machine from the entrance of a Makro...

Builder death : A 26-year-old builder from Romania was killed in the tourist resort of Faliraki...

Kindergarten tragedy : An appeals court yesterday upheld an 18-month suspended jail...

Rice confiscated : Piraeus port officials confiscated 75 tons of rice found to contain traces of melamine...


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A few hundred pensioners...
EDITORIAL

Social security riddled with holes The negative demographic trends are not the only threat to Greece's pension funds, as further problems have emerged over the past few years. The funds' medical spending is soaring at an alarming rate: It doubled in the last four years, while over the same period the lowest pension rose by a meager 17.7 percent. That increase is not a result of Greeks' legendary pill popping.

COMMENTARY

The shield and the sword Russia's deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said last week that «a more effective sword can be found for every shield.» His comment concerned US plans to build an anti-missile defense system also known as the «Star Wars» program. It's the revival of the old Ronald Reagan ambition to use ground- and space-based systems to protect the US...

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