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Land register drive hits trouble Employees at property records offices to go on strike for first day of new effort to create list of land and homes Greece's efforts to create its first comprehensive land registry look set to get off to an inauspicious start as employees at property records offices in Athens and Piraeus said yesterday that they will go on a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, when the process is meant to begin.

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Top industrialist gets abducted

Police yesterday intensified inspections at border crossings and airports following the abduction by three gunmen of a prominent industrialist from his Thessaloniki home.

Quake-hit buildings scrutinized

State engineers yesterday continued inspections on hundreds of buildings in the prefectures of Ileia and Achaia that were damaged in Sunday's 6.5-magnitude earthquake. Of some 621 buildings checked by late yesterday, 264 have been deemed unsafe to enter.

Police capture sex traffickers

Police in Athens said yesterday they had broken a trafficking ring that had been recruiting young Romanian women from poor neighborhoods in their homeland and luring them to Greece to work in brothels.

Greece striker Fanis Gekas...

Greece striker Fanis Gekas tries to control the ball under the watchful eye of Sweden's Anders Svensson...

Islanders go to court over use of ‘lesbian’

A court in Athens yesterday began hearing a case brought by three islanders from Lesbos (Lesvos) against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece (OLKE) in a bid to stop them from using the word «lesbian.»

IN BRIEF

FYROM FM says nation has right to self-determination : Skopje is open to further talks with Athens...

Rubbish piling up after protests in Thessaloniki : A fire that broke out late on Monday in a landfill near Kalamata...

Police scour northern Athens : Attica Police revealed yesterday that they are investigating the disappearance of two brothers...

Hail damage : A heavy hailstone shower in Nemea, Peloponnese, caused extensive damage...

Teenage smokers : Three in 10 secondary school pupils smoke in excess of 20 cigarettes...

Safer blood : Blood being used in transfusions across the country will soon be subject to advanced molecular testing...

Tractor death : A farmer suffered fatal injuries yesterday when the tractor he was riding overturned and fell upon him...

Cyprus trip : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis will conduct a three-day visit...

Khat catch : A Somalian man traveling from London was arrested...

Civil action : Immediate relatives of seven schoolchildren killed in a coach accident...

Nuts halted : A shipment of 36 tons of peanuts from China was seized by authorities in Thessaloniki yesterday...


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Would-be immigrants’ journey cut short A Palestinian immigrant awaits his fate yesterday after Port Authority officials at the Cretan port of Iraklion intercepted him and another 79 of his countrymen. The 80 would-be migrants had been left on a beach by a people-smuggling boat that managed to elude detection.

EDITORIAL

Property list not thought through The fact that 3 million people will be rushing within the next three (slow, summer) months to register their properties before the assigned deadline should have people at the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works very worried indeed. The ministry has waited until this moment to express concern that it may have fallen short in its assessment of the number of overall properties that need to be registered and its fear that property records offices will be unable to handle the huge load of files once the rush hits.

COMMENTARY

Obama vs McCain I came back from a brief trip to the United States and everyone asked me who the next US president will be. The best answer I heard came from an expert, a veteran of American politics, who predicted that Barack Obama will either win by a large margin or lose by an equally large one. As simplistic as this may sound, it does reflect reality. Right now, the Democratic candidate is enjoying huge momentum, the tide is flowing his way and a huge pool of disappointment toward President George W. Bush and his administration is open to him. Therefore, in many ways, Obama can lose only if he makes a mistake himself.

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