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Iraklion splashes out Cretan town uses letter of guarantee to buy oil painting by El Greco Climbing out on a limb yesterday, Crete's largest town bought at auction a paperback-sized painting, attributed to the island's greatest artist, for over a million euros - on the strength of a bank letter of guarantee.

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Probe into arms deals given one more month

After fierce disagreement, the parliamentary committee probing arms deals carried out by the previous PASOK government, which was due to conclude its investigation before Christmas, yesterday decided to extend the deadline to January 14.

4 in 10 outstay university welcome

Four in 10 students at Greek universities have overstayed the length of their degrees but the situation is better at technical colleges where class attendance is compulsory, according to figures released yesterday.

Plan to rid Greece of its rubble

The sight of piles of abandoned building materials around Greece may become a thing of the past...

Ghost temple on desert islet

Archaeologists chasing a phantom ancient temple on an uninhabited islet of the Cyclades have turned up many impressive artifacts - but no sign of the building itself.

Having won residence, woman reveals ordeal

Two men from northern Greece were indicted yesterday on charges of forcing into prostitution a young Romanian illegal immigrant three years ago.

IN BRIEF

Refuse set to pile up across country as street cleaners start 48-hour strike : Garbage is set to pile up across the country over the next few days...

Reform imposes use of seat belts : All school buses and tourist coaches transporting children to and from school...

Rapist released : A Drama man convicted of two murders, four attempted murders and several rapes...

Hero : Athens salesman Polyvios Kossivas embraces Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima...

Chicken poisoning : A 50-year-old Cretan woman was charged yesterday with feeding chicken laced with pesticide...

'Migrants' handbook' : The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece yesterday decided to publish a special edition of extracts...

Blind love? : The case of a 45-year-old married man charged with prostituting his 29-year-old blind lover...

Military affairs : Deputy Defense Minister Vassilis Michaloliakos yesterday had talks with NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander...

Farmers withdraw : Farmers from Serres yesterday lifted a blockade at the Promachona Road junction...


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EDITORIAL

Guilty sensitivity Following the government's presentation of a draft law intended to ensure transparency in public contracts, objections were to be expected from a certain group of people: that is, those who stand to lose out from the proposed reforms, the vested interests that fed on political and business entanglement. Their sharp reaction against any measure aimed at thwarting this phenomenon is easy to explain.

COMMENTARY

Powerless union The government in Athens is doing its best within European Union contours to safeguard the national interest in light of Turkey's demands for a date to open EU talks, which will be decided at the bloc's summit on December 17. The Greek demands over the content of the gathering's final communique are by all accounts moderate and fully legitimate and, for that reason, have met no resistance from either the EU's Dutch presidency or from the member states' governments.

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