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ND sets sights on gaining at least 43 percent PM wants a minimum of 155 MPs New Democracy is aiming to secure at least 43 percent of the vote in the snap general election, which is expected to be held on September 23, sources told Sunday's Kathimerini.

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Two years on, Helios relatives sue Cyprus

Cypriot relatives of passengers killed when an airliner ran out of oxygen and slammed into a Greek hillside are claiming damages from the state...

Bill to speed up court verdicts

A set of measures heralded by Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras aims to accelerate the dispensation of justice in the Greek court system...

Police quell prison protest

Police early yesterday quelled a protest by prisoners at a jail near Ioannina, northwestern Greece, that had started on Saturday night.

Chiefs of funds are implicated

The heads of the pension funds that purchases a controversial 280-million-euro Greek government bond knew that the note had been traded between financial institutions at a discounted rate...

Visitor shoots soldier in Crete army camp

Authorities on Crete were last night looking for an armed man who entered an army camp while families were visiting soldiers there and opened fire on a 19-year-old conscript.

IN BRIEF

Italian airline official seriously injured after falling out of plane : The representative of an Italian airline was hospitalized on Rhodes...

Five Greek sailors hurt after fight with 11 Serb tourists : Five Greek sailors were injured late on Saturday...

Greece reaches European final : Greece's Under-18 national basketball team was last night taking on Serbia...

Loan scam : Five people have been arrested in Thessaloniki on suspicion...

Samos migrants : Authorities on Samos said yesterday that they had detained 92 illegal immigrants...

Fatal drilling : A worker died of electrocution yesterday while boring a hole for a well in the area of Mantoules...

Paxoi quake : An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale shook some Ionian islands...

Deadly crashes : Three people were killed in a car crash on the Athens-Thessaloniki national road...

Traffickers caught : Police in Thessaloniki arrested two suspected human traffickers and nine illegal immigrants...

Missing bather : Coast guard officers were last night looking for a 43-year-old man...


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Two years on, Helios relatives sue Cyprus
EDITORIAL

Seeking solutions from the experts It is quite clear that Greece has entered the final stretch in the countdown to general elections, the prospect of which has dominated political debate for months. And unfortunately the average Greek knows what to expect over the next few weeks: Insipid verbal duels on television talk programs and hackneyed political rhetoric are the order of the day. But the problems afflicting our country are serious and must be debated responsibly if they are ever to be solved.

COMMENTARY

The citizen and the markets The turmoil on the markets over the past few days merely confirms that we are living in an age of extreme - even total - flux. The planet seems to be made of up communicating chambers: from the rise in temperatures that affects climates and habitats in different corners of the globe to the lightning-quick financial transactions that link one side of the earth to the other...

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