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FYROM�s leadership met in Skopje on Tuesday to ponder its positions in New York on the "name issue", the same day as an unambiguous reply by the UN Secretary General asked to first settle the "name issue" before delving into other issues.... »

Nursing homes fill up in August (eKathimerini)

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Dirty rivers to get ‘black flags’ (eKathimerini)

Antics on Crete would delight Dionysus but the local police are not laughing (Guardian)

Greek monastic food gets cookbook treatment (Salt Lake Tribune)

Traffic respite only temporary (eKathimerini)

FM on Georgia status

ND backs harassed ex-minister (eKathimerini)

Gov�t plans new migrant centers (eKathimerini)

KKE against EU initiative

PM confers with Interior Minister

New turn in Pavlidis case to test Karamanlis (eKathimerini)

Sarkozy renews Afghan commitment (BBC)

Once clubby U.K. spy service seeks gay recruits (MSNBC)

French mark 60 years of the 2CV (BBC)

Six arrested after Crete flight brawl (Herald.ie)

Italy illegal immigration 'soars' (BBC)

Chip fat rally heads for Athens (Environmental Data Interactive)

US and Poland seal missile deal (BBC)

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Zambia's president dies in France (BBC)

Zimbabwe inflation hits 11,200,000 percent (CNN)

Afghan ambush kills French troops (BBC)

Nato holds Georgia crisis talks (BBC)

Checks bounced ever higher in July (eKathimerini)

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OSE to get back on track (eKathimerini)

HSBC expects mixed bank H1 figures (eKathimerini)

Bulgarian shepherds eye Greek subsidies (eKathimerini)

Brussels withdraws recognition of Hellenic Register of Shipping (Lloyd's List)

Argentina over Greece 80-78 in basketball (IHT)

Greeks on a successful course

Teenager Ninis in Greek squad for Slovakia friendly (Reuters)

Greece's Halkia faces legal probe (CNN)

Olympic chief speaks of organized doping (eKathimerini)

More frustration for Greek athletes (eKathimerini)

Ethnic Greek among victims in South Ossetia clashes

Dear Nia Vardalos, about those columns (Christian Science Monitor)

No Greeks among refugees

Greeks in S.Ossetia safe

Church says relic of saint stolen (Boston Globe)

The delicious taste of Greek heritage (Ottawa Citizen, Canada)

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The Macedonian Dispute as a Yugoslav-Bulgarian conflict (by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD) - 17 August

Ideology as a causational pattern for state behavior: the case of the Macedonian dispute (by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD) - 4 August

The Greece - FYROM dispute at a dead end (by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD) - 2 August

The Macedonian Dispute as a Yugoslav-Bulgarian conflict

by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD

The name dispute between Greece and FYROM has been seen primarily as a conflict between Greece and FYROM. Yet historically the third factor of the dispute was Bulgarian policy and its aim to annex Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia.

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