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Pressure on Vodafone MPs want firm prosecuted after ADAE points to involvement in wiretaps The head of the parliamentary committee investigating the recent cases of phone tapping yesterday called for Vodafone, the mobile phone company at the center of the scandal, to be prosecuted immediately.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Strike to continue as trash mounts

More than 30,000 tons of trash piled up on Athenian sidewalks yesterday as rubbish collectors decided to extend their strike for a seventh straight day today...

Border drugs ‘battle’ rages on

Police on the Greek-Albanian border are fighting a running battle with drug smugglers from Albania which led to specially trained officers jumping into a raging river...

Journalist in critical state

A freelance journalist from the island of Chios was in intensive care at an Athens hospital yesterday...

Hellenikon park is not in danger

Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias yesterday reaffirmed the government's commitment...

European Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner...

European Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou points...

Jailed judge claims 3 mln euros in lost pay

Former judge Evangelos Kaloussis yesterday took his case to the European Court of Justice...

IN BRIEF

Prosecutor to question hospital chiefs about how baby was infected : A prosecutor in Thessaloniki yesterday launched...

Suspect denies beating his wife to death at their home in Aspropyrgos : A 40-year-old shepherd from Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, was charged yesterday...

More confiscations as Easter nears : Health inspectors from the Piraeus Prefecture seized more than half a ton of meat...

Zografou suspect : A 50-year-old retired policemen has been arrested in connection with an attempted rape...

Robbery ring : Police said yesterday that they have arrested two Albanians believed to have netted...

Chatty drivers : Police in Thessaloniki said yesterday that during the first three months...

ELPA warning : Motoring organization ELPA called on parents and teachers yesterday to escort...

Karpathos earthquake : An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted the eastern Aegean island...

Food confiscated : The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) yesterday confiscated 24,000 cans of stuffed vine...


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EDITORIAL

Europe and its social realities The inglorious end to the French government's attempts to reform labor relations affecting that nation's young people raises some extremely serious issues, particularly considering the intense protests by millions of citizens and widespread social unrest that was sparked by this initiative. Despite this, European leaders have declared their intention to push through structural changes to the economy so that the European Union will be better equipped...

COMMENTARY

Transportation for miracles Hundreds of tourist coaches filled with hordes of the faithful headed once more last weekend for the Monastery of Agathos to see the relics (or rather the inexplicably unburied corpse) of the monk Vyssarion. Meanwhile, dozens more tourist buses, this time filled with schoolchildren, head for the gigantic new shopping mall where countless consumer products are on display. Naturally, the two phenomena have nothing in common.

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