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Decoded Stasi files tell the tale of Agent Krokus Kokkalis was sending reports until ’89 Socrates Kokkalis, the telecommunications, software and electronic gaming tycoon, gave the East German intelligence service frequent reports, right up to 1989, the year in which East Germany collapsed, Kathimerini reported yesterday.

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Evros floods, weather kills 2

Thousands of hectares of fields in Thrace were inundated yesterday when the River Evros in Thrace broke its banks, while two people drowned in swollen torrents on Saturday...

Athens seeks its course in EU storm

Prime Minister Costas Simitis and Foreign Minister George Papandreou will meet today to decide what steps Greece can take as president of the EU...

Bishop subjected to N17 ploy

A dissident bishop, who annoyed Archbishop Christodoulos last week by claiming that all Greece's senior clerics had at some point been blackmailed by corrupt journalists...

Gas bomb art student evades jail

A Thessaloniki art student who tried to blow up a bag of camping gas canisters outside the US consulate in Thessaloniki during a 1999 anti-war protest was given a suspended jail sentence...

Monk killed by tractor in bid to dodge police

A monk from a rebel Mount Athos fraternity died on Saturday in a freak tractor accident while trying to evade police forces besieging his 1,000-year-old monastery.

IN BRIEF

Five smugglers sentenced : A Greek and four Poles have been sentenced to 10 years each in prison for smuggling 55 illegal immigrants...

Daniilidou out : Greek tennis player Eleni Daniilidou, 20, lost 6-2, 6-0 to top seed Serena Williams in Saturday’s semifinal...

Friendly fire : Hunter Giorgos Costis, 18, was hospitalized with severe gunshot wounds in Thessaloniki yesterday...


THIS WEEK

MONDAY : Prime Minister Costas Simitis and Foreign Minister George Papandreou meet to discuss the Greek EU presidency’s next steps...

TUESDAY : Prime Minister Simitis meets with Swiss President Pascal Couchepin...

WEDNESDAY : Foreign Minister Papandreou leaves for Beijing, where he and other members of the EU Troika will meet with Chinese officials....

THURSDAY : State hospitals stage a 24-hour strike demanding higher salaries and more state spending on health....

FRIDAY : Greek Social Forum holds an anti-war concert in Hania, Crete....

SATURDAY : Anti-war rallies are held in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities as part of an international protest...

SUNDAY : First round of presidential elections on Cyprus...


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Cotton farmers from Thessaly...
EDIORIAL

Deeply indebted Although the situation is not fully borne out by economic statistics, it has still had an effect on people's everyday lives. The stock market plunge, the economic slowdown and the difficulty in creating new jobs are all having an impact on Greeks' consumer behavior.

COMMENTARY

Dangerous affectations Prime Minister Costas Simitis's pathetic speech in Parliament last week, during which he sank to referring to the preposterous writings of late dictator Giorgos Papadopoulos in order to refute opposition allegations...

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