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Cleanup for dirty money New, all-powerful independent body to track down money launderers

Following a rapid rise in the amount of money laundering taking place in Greece, the government is preparing the ground for the creation of a new independent authority with overreaching powers to clamp down on the practice, sources told Sunday's Kathimerini.
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Tests fail to find bird flu in Greece
The government has started to pick up the pieces left behind by a false alarm over a suspected case of bird flu appearing in the country after final tests confirmed that a sick turkey found on an eastern Aegean island was not infected with the deadly strain of the disease.
Siren sounds over police presence
Greece's most crime-ridden area, Attica, is experiencing severe police shortages due to red tape and a lack of trained personnel, leaving the force short by some 4,000 officers, according to figures seen by Sunday's Kathimerini.
6 die in single Halkidiki crash
On a weekend that saw heavier traffic conditions on the country's highways due to Friday's national holiday, six people were killed in a single car accident in Halkidiki, northern Greece.
TV losing its shine, say Greeks
The saying that you should not believe everything you see on television appears to have been adopted by most Greek households, as three-quarters of the people questioned in a survey published yesterday...
Pressure mounts for more euro banknotes
As Greece continues to grapple with one of the highest inflation rates in the European Union, the government yesterday repeated its call for the European Central Bank (ECB) to substitute...
IN BRIEF
First congress of leftist movement ends with Athens Declaration : The leader of Synaspismos Left Coalition Alekos Alavanos was the host...
Major search around Mount Athos : Rescue teams were searching late yesterday for...
Cannabis haul : Police arrested two men on Saturday close to Edessa...
Smokes smuggler : A 35-year-old foreign truckdriver attempting to smuggle...
Talat visit : Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met with...
Child pornography : A 62-year-old man was taken to a prosecutor in Drama...
Illegal immigrants : Police said on Saturday that they had arrested two Greeks and an Albanian national...
THIS WEEK
Monday : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki hosts a conference...
Tuesday : President Karolos Papoulias meets with his Albanian counterpart...
Wednesday : Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Valinakis attends...
Thursday : Communication Institute presents a study on the Modern Greek language...
Friday : Third international meeting of nuclear medicine of northern Greece opens...


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Ostriches at Attica Zoo...
EDITORIAL
A call for fresh blood
The conservative government is almost halfway through its term of office. The government should already have pushed through all the reforms that it set out as crucial before it rode to power some two years ago. The two-year benchmark is not just connected to the electoral cycle and common experience, which has it that governments are unlikely to introduce drastic measures with elections looming in the relatively near future.
COMMENTARY
Unaccountable television
The peculiar regime that currently rules Greek television was put in place with the consent of all politicians in 1989. Now they must all work together to tackle the chaos and lack of restraint that characterize many private television stations and which are threatening to corrupt our democratic institutions. These stations share responsibility for this situation. Many in the field of television have deliberately, and hypocritically, started to equate their lack of restraint with press freedom and with journalists' mission of monitoring and keeping a check on power.
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