Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-12-11

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[01] Cold front generates snow, freezing temps

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines 

[01] Cold front generates snow, freezing temps

Temperatures as low as -5C caused many roadways in northern Greece to freeze, while motorists in mountainous regions were advised to use snow tires. The lowest temperatures were recorded in the western Macedonia region, with Florina and Kozani showing a -5C reading.

The first real cold front of the season was also felt as far south as Crete, with significant amounts of snow falling on the large island's peaks, causing at least several provincial roadways to close in the highlands. (ANA-MPA)

Four hikers were reportedly cut-off in the mountainous village of Mylopotamos in Crete's Rethymno prefecture, near a ski resort. (ANA-MPA) A rescue team was heading to the site with a half-track vehicle.

In Athens, meanwhile, the main road leading to Mount Parnitha, which overlooks Athens from the northwest, was closed from the funicular station and up.

Coastal shipping was also plagued by up to 8 on the Beaufort scale seas in the Aegean. (ANA-MPA)

Caption: Snow covered much of Mt. Hymettus, looking over Athens from the east, on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. ANA-MPA / S. PANTZARTZI

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[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

An urgently tabled draft bill envisioning cuts in salaries of employees in state-run enterprises and utilities, along with labour market reforms, dominated the headlines in the Athens' dailies on Saturday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Wages and labour contracts ... ala Argentina".

AVGHI: "Leave (towards the government), so the free-fall will end".

AVRIANI: "Where are you Andreas (Papandreou) to see what your son (George) has done to the country and socialism."

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Nightmare without end".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Five changes in construction sector".

ESTIA: "The truth over reforms in labour market".

ETHNOS: "Losses to wages via shock measures".

IMERISSIA: "New contract for labour relations".

KATHIMERINI: "Political leaders' meetings on Tuesday".

LOGOS: "Collective bargaining agreements in rubbish bin".

NAFTEMPORIKI: "Targets of 2011 up in the air".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Immediate uprising now against dictatorship of the monopolies".

TA NEA: "A December of critical clashes".

VRADYNI: "You won't have us as co-conspirators".

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