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United push for Cyprus Greek, Cypriot leaders stress will for ‘viable’ solution by May 1 Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos agreed yesterday on the tactics their countries will follow in the next weeks as negotiations aimed at solving the Cyprus problem intensify.

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Rogge: Still time for the Games

IOC President Jacques Rogge and other senior officials of the International Olympic Committee met with Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis...

Nicosia balks at cost of peace

NICOSIA (AFP) - Greek Cypriots fear their strong economy could sink beneath the weight of property compensation claims, which they say are an excessive price to pay for reunification under a United Nations plan.

Greece to fall silent for Madrid

All public sector employees are to participate today in a European Union-wide gesture of solidarity with the Spanish people after Thursday's horrific terrorist attacks in Madrid, after a government decision on Saturday.

Labor official sold permits

A high-ranking Athens Prefecture official and one of his clerks have been arrested on suspicion of running a lucrative side business selling work permits to immigrants, police said on Saturday.

Cypriots strike deal on flag, recoil at kebabs

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriots trying to thrash out a peace settlement have agreed on a common flag, providing a rare glimmer of hope in otherwise troubled reunification talks.

IN BRIEF

Election committee issues results : The Supreme Election Committee yesterday ratified the official results of the March 7 elections...

Ecstasy haul : Four men have been arrested near the Thracian town of Didymoteicho...

Church feud : Church of Greece officials have established an «oral agreement»...

Pedophilia arrest : Police in Athens have arrested a 23-year-old Greek man suspected of participation in an international ring...

Softex ruling : A Thracian appeals court has ruled that 223 workers from the Drama plant of the Athens Paper Mills company (also known under the brand name Softex) were illegally sacked...

Cell death : A 36-year-old Polish national died early yesterday in a cell...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Three-minute silence at 2 p.m. in memory of victims of Madrid terrorist attack...

Tuesday : Archbishop Christodoulos chairs meeting of the Holy Synod...

Wednesday : PASOK parliamentary group convenes to discuss election results...

Saturday : Communist-led anti-war movement EEDYE holds «anti-imperialist» rally...


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EDITORIAL

A new era dawns for Greece Last week's election result was a surprise to many people and a relief to many more. The demand for political change, which was widespread among the public despite being snubbed by the majority of the media, was expressed in an unequivocal fashion and finally relegated PASOK, a party which had been in power for nearly two decades, to the opposition.

COMMENTARY

Political impropriety The greatest political impropriety of the outgoing government is that although it called for early national elections on the pretext of the Cyprus issue, it did not request a postponement of bilateral talks - a demand that the Turkish side has repeatedly made in the past - thus developments have come to a very delicate point. During his swearing-in ceremony, new Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis rightly said that the process agreed upon in New York is a binding one, but this by no means suggests that there will be no further bargaining or that the governments of Greece and Cyprus have an outstanding...

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