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Blackmail probe moves on Another round of questioning in Zachopoulos case due to begin today A new round of questioning in the Zachopoulos affair is expected to begin today after a magistrate called on several people linked to the case to give depositions as part of the investigation into the attempted suicide of the former Culture Ministry general secretary.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Vesuvius ash fell in area of Volvi

A thick layer of solidified ash discovered in the region of Lake Volvi...

Tremor stirs up water woes

State inspectors reported minimal damage to buildings in Leonidio...

Drugs feared in teen death

The death of a 14-year-old girl in Ptolemaida, northern Greece, on Sunday...

Non-Greek colleges in for grilling

Foreign colleges offering university degrees in Greece are to be subjected to strict inspections...

Unidentified arsonists...

The wrecks of a torched car and motorcycle in a street in Pangrati...

Change of tune could save record factory

A decision to allow seven of the eight buildings in the old Columbia record company headquarters...

IN BRIEF

PM requests parliamentary debate in bid to stop talk about scandal : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has requested...

Convicted member of extreme group out after less than four years in jail : A man handed a 25-year prison term...

Violations continue ahead of visit : Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space over the Aegean 12 times yesterday...

Suspects remanded : Six of the eight suspects arrested in Crete recently...

Illegal immigrants : Authorities on Samos were yesterday questioning a 23-year-old Turkish national...

Back to school : Primary and secondary school students will head back to the classroom today...

Urban transport : Greece is forming a committee to examine ways of improving commuter travel...


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EDITORIAL

Controversial funding A review of the Culture Ministry's subsidies says nothing about the country's culture policy over time. What it does reveal on the other hand is the culture minister's hometown or electoral district. The subsidies from the ministry do not follow any steady pattern; however, much of the money goes to anything from churches to local communities in that same geographical area.

COMMENTARY

To die for In his «Oxopetra Elegies,» Odysseus Elytis wrote that «the truth is only given in exchange for death.» Recent events have confirmed his thoughts in reverse: The two near suicides, the two near deaths, seem to take us further from the truth instead of closer. The note by former Culture Ministry General Secretary Christos Zachopoulos...

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