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Tourist numbers leap up Expected double-digit rise confirms medium-term Olympics benefit Tourist arrivals are expected to grow by double digits to over 14 million in 2005, much higher than previous forecasts indicated.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Profit lid agreed to tame high fuel prices

Oil refineries, distributors and senior government officials agreed yesterday...

Jilted boyfriend admits killing

A prosecutor yesterday brought charges of homicide against a 23-year-old Veria man who has allegedly admitted...

Holiday exodus smooth

Crammed into ships, planes and cars, tens of thousands of Athenians began fleeing the capital...

Smuggling ringleader smoked out in Athens

Police arrested a 50-year-old British man in Athens...

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IN BRIEF

A year on, Athens mayor says event gave city much-needed lift : A year to the day after the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens...

Father and son killed in car crash : A father and his 6-year-old son were killed yesterday when their vehicle collided...

Imair flights : Azerbaijanian airline Imair will start direct flights to Larnaca...

Mine-clearing drive : A United Nations peacekeeper participates in an EU-brokered de-mining effort...

Drug bust : More than a kilo of heroin, some 300 grams of cocaine and small quantities of hashish...

Kozani fire : Ten firefighters using six fire trucks were struggling to extinguish a fire yesterday...

Bank robberies : Robbers targeted two Eurobank branches yesterday, police said...

Illegal immigrants : Port authorities early yesterday arrested three illegal immigrants...


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EDITORIAL

Precious capital The sharp rise in tourist arrivals this summer is no surprise after the success of the Athens Olympics last year. The trouble-free staging of the Games, the image of Athens as a safe and hospitable city, and the aesthetic elegance of the opening ceremonies...

COMMENTARY

That was then "What matters is what people took away with them in their hearts, and that is something we will not know until much later,» Dimitris Papaioannou, grand master of last summer's Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, told Kathimerini last year.

OPINION

Trouble at sea Costas Karamanlis is perhaps the only prime minister in recent years to have promoted issues linked to coastal shipping and is well aware that the sector faces major structural and financial problems. Before his New Democracy party came to power, its merchant marine committee drafted studies for the sector, about which Karamanlis had been well briefed.

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