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Fugitive father found Man suspected of killing daughter turns up at rockers’ monastery A 35-year-old father,wanted by police for questioning with regard to the murder of his 13-year-old daughter last week,turned himself in yesterday after seeking guidance from the abbot of a monastery in central Greece whose novice monks are known nationally as the «Rocking Priests.»

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Sun shines on massive Easter exodus

The largest exodus of the last few years is underway, with Athenians fanning out across the country to celebrate the Orthodox Easter and the spring weather.

Patriarch wants Bethlehem freed

The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians yesterday issued an angry call for Israelis and Palestinians to stop fighting in one of Christianity's holiest sites, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Sabri given Cypriot citizenship

A Turkish-Cypriot footballer whose ground-breaking deal to play in the divided island's south collapsed after it emerged that his mother was a mainland Turk will be able to continue his career in the Republic of Cyprus...

Cypriots seek a bridge of trade

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Greek-Cypriot businessmen have urged their government to consider freeing up some trade on the divided island, which would ease an economic blockade on Turkish Cypriots.

Airport blockade over ‘match-rigging’

Supporters and players for a small Thessaloniki football club that narrowly missed promotion to Greece's top league last Sunday are to block the road to the northern city's airport...

IN BRIEF

Center of town to be closed for Good Friday processions : Traffic in the center of Athens will be disrupted this evening...

Last trains on Athens electric railway The last trains on the capital’s Piraeus-to-Kifissia electric railway will leave...

Players threaten action over insurance : The Greek soccer championship organizers yesterday promised to pay overdue health...

Shorty. Detectives in the northeastern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi have arrested...

e-flame. Tomorrow’s lighting of the flame ahead of the Resurrection service...

Education. Prime Minister Costas Simitis conferred yesterday with Education Minister...

Bridge. A new, 12.6-million-euro bridge on the road from Thessaloniki to Nea Moudania...

Maybe. The Public Order Ministry yesterday agreed to look into a request for political asylum...


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EDITORIAL

Greece and Europe The second round of the French presidential elections on Sunday is expected to produce a triumph for sitting President Jacques Chirac. His re-election, however, will not solve the underlying problem, which has been underscored by the resurgence of extreme rightist Jean-Marie Le Pen and, more generally, by the renaissance of far-rightist movements in Europe.

COMMENTARY

Redistribution of seats Every 10 years, the national census brings a change in the number of parliamentary seats in some electoral constituencies so as to maintain the ratio between seats and population. This time, however, there seems to be a blatant asymmetry in the distribution of seats. The issue has often been raised in the past but no government has dared engineer a redistribution for fear...

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