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Phanar’s envoys here Bishops present ecumenical patriarch’s position in church crisis A mission of four bishops representing Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios arrived in Athens yesterday in an effort to present the Patriarchate's case to the Greek government regarding the dispute with the leadership of the Church of Greece.

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Erdogan to visit Athens and Thrace

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a three-day official visit to Greece, starting on Thursday.

Hotel prices ‘50-100 pct up’

Despite a sizable drop in tourist arrivals this year, Greek hoteliers have hiked their prices by a staggering average 70-80 percent ahead of the Summer Olympics, the head of the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) said yesterday.

Deadline extended for permits

In a move that is expected to allow another 200,000 immigrants to acquire legitimate status in Greece, the government has tabled a new amendment extending the deadline for applying for residence permits.

Spiliotopoulos in the hot seat

Tension rose in the northeastern Aegean yesterday when Turkish military jets came close to violating Greek air space in the area where a fighter jet carrying Defense Minister Spilios Spiliotopoulos as a co-pilot was carrying out simulated bombing runs.

ELA witness spared perjury humiliation

The key prosecution witness in the Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) terrorism trial yesterday ended 14 days of continuous testimony with defense lawyers demanding her arrest for perjury.

IN BRIEF

Court upholds conviction of jet pilot, cuts sentence to 35 months, suspended : An Athens appeals court yesterday upheld the conviction of the former pilot of the prime-ministerial Falcon jet...

Man abducts former fiancee after shooting at her brothers, killing one : A 33-year-old man yesterday morning shot dead the youngest of his former fiancee's two brothers...

Deputy defense minister in Washington : Deputy Defense Minister Vassilis Michaloliakos arrived in Washington DC yesterday...

Mouth of PASOK : Former PASOK MP for Thessaloniki Spyros Vougias was appointed yesterday as the Socialists' official spokesman...

Loan fees : Four consumers who paid «management fees» when applying for bank loans should get their money back...

Elis head : Archaeologists digging in the ancient city of Elis, in the northwestern Peloponnese, have discovered an excellently preserved marble head...

Korean aid : The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it would contribute 30,000 euros in humanitarian aid to North Korea...

Drug hauls : Six Albanian nationals faced a Ioannina prosecutor yesterday following their arrest...

Pawnshop raid : Three armed robbers yesterday made off with an undisclosed sum of cash and some jewelry...


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EDITORIAL

Turf war Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has chosen to pour more oil on the flames of the recent spat between the Phanar and the Church of Greece. The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians appears to be heading for conflict with the Greek government, unless it plays into his hands.

COMMENTARY

A ‘civilizing’ mission George Bush expressed «disgust» and Tony Blair was «sickened» by photographs and official reports confirming that some of the self-styled American and British liberators and civilizers abused and humiliated Iraqi detainees, i.e. prisoners of war who are protected by international accords. The hegemon's disgust and the sickness of his principal ally, as well as the universal outrage, instantly prompted the harsh albeit fair punishment of the perpetrators.

OPINION

Pre-election questions What would the result of next month's European Parliament elections have to be for it to be considered a success by PASOK and for an underlying trend of challenging party leader George Papandreou to be checked? This is the major preoccupation of the main opposition party six weeks before the polls, while the solutions being proposed by Papandreou's entourage and critics are diametrically opposed.

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