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Greece begins its peacekeeping drive in Lebanon Frigate has orders to fire if need be A Greek navy frigate has arrived in Lebanon to join the United Nations multinational peacekeeping force in the area and to help ensure that no illicit arms are shipped into the Middle Eastern country, sources said yesterday.

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PM promises brighter future for Thessaloniki

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday pledged to make northern Greece, and Thessaloniki in particular...

Bikers carve up Pendeli forest

Parts of forest areas on Mount Pendeli, northern Athens, are being illegally destroyed to make way for motorcross racing as authorities so far seem unable to stop the problem, residents told Kathimerini.

Athens MBA joins top 10 list

An MBA course offered by the Athens University of Economic and Business (AUEB) was ranked as the tenth best in Europe and is drawing a growing number of international students, according to a ranking completed by a leading education magazine.

Prison escapee is recaptured

A convicted murderer who escaped Korydallos Prison in a helicopter three months ago was recaptured yesterday morning in a beach house in Viotia, north of Attica, in an operation involving 25 armed officers, police said.

Hundreds of tons of ‘bad food’ confiscated

Inspections of food imports at border points and production units across the country have led to the seizure of hundreds of tons of produce unfit for consumption, the Agricultural Development and Food Ministry said yesterday.

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A free three-page supplement on international education in Greece is available inside today’s Kathimerini English Edition.

IN BRIEF

Man claiming to be Apostle Paul gets 13 years in jail for fraud, blackmail : A Greek man who claimed he was the Apostle Paul was yesterday given a 13-year jail sentence...

London's British Museum to borrow ancient relics for exhibition : Greece has agreed to loan London's British Museum a collection of priceless Minoan-era antiquities for an exhibition to be held by 2009...

Woman did not abandon children : A 36-year-old woman was yesterday found not guilty of abandoning her three children...

Weapons stash : Police said yesterday they had arrested 10 men close to Hania, Crete, after finding in their possession a large amount of weapons and ammunition...

Offices attacked : A group of unknown men threw smoke flares yesterday at the offices of New Democracy in Thessaloniki in the areas of Harilaou and Triandria...

Refugee return : The Greek Council for Refugees said yesterday that it had helped 10 migrants from Afghanistan return to their country after they had been taught English and computer skills...

Dealer caught : Police arrested a 46-year-old man in central Athens late on Thursday on suspicion that he had been dealing large amounts of illegal drugs...

Bank raid : An armed man held up a branch of Eurobank in Patissia, central Athens, yesterday morning and walked off with 5,720 euros in cash, police said...

Deadly tractor : A farmer was killed and another seriously injured yesterday when the tractor on which they were traveling ran off the side of the road...


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EDITORIAL

Finally, some good news on education In what was a pleasure and honor for Greece's education system, which is hardly in its heyday, it was announced yesterday that the MBA program at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) ranks among the best of its kind, not only in Europe but in the world. Success is the result of many factors. First of all, the program is carefully designed to meet the needs of the labor market. The aim is to cover the demand for executives by Greek companies doing business in the Balkans.

COMMENTARY

Recovering elusive revenues The monthly drama in public revenues (which were artificially boosted by 5 percent in August) shows that not only is there something rotten in the state of Denmark as in Hamlet's soliloquy but also in the Finance Ministry in the center of Athens. How can it be that national income gallops at a 7.5-8 percent rate, that retail sales in department stores and supermarkets grow at a 13 and 17 percent pace, but the state cannot collect the respective tax revenues? Some people are obviously getting their hands on public monies. But who are they? It is the businessman who does not pay the taxes due; it is the shopkeeper who does not give receipts...

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