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 Papadopoulos in Athens talks |
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| Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos arrived in Athens yesterday evening for talks with government officials, as international pressure is mounting for a peace deal on the divided island before its May 1 European Union entry.
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| Still feuding on the Left before polls |
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| Greece's main left-wing parties - the Communists and the Synaspismos coalition - appear to be heading into the March 7 elections without managing to overcome differences that have kept them divided since a short-lived union that ended in 1991.
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| Israel to recognize patriarch? |
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| An Israeli Cabinet committee recommended yesterday that, 30 months after his election, Israel should recognize the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Israeli Prime Minister's office said.
The committee, headed by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, made the positive recommendation to the government, and the issue will be debated at the next Cabinet meeting, a statement said.
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| 77 migrants on N. Korean ship |
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| Coast guards off the southern Peloponnese on Saturday stopped a North Korean-flagged freighter carrying scores of illegal immigrants to Greece, and arrested the captain and his crew.
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| Cocaine-smuggling ring caught in Piraeus |
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| Authorities in Piraeus have broken an international ring that smuggled large quantities of cocaine to Western Europe through Greece in battered cars that were loaded on bogus road assistance trucks, police said on Saturday.
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A reveler dances...
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EDITORIAL |
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The Altec scandal
Last April, shortly before the outbreak of the Altec stock market scandal - a scandal with far-reaching economic and political consequences that indirectly also generated current developments in the ruling party - Kathimerini criticized that group of businessmen who, like a bolt from the blue, used their extensive connections with the political system to acquire economic power, causing extensive distortions to the operation of the domestic market economy. |
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COMMENTARY |
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The new Talleyrand?
The ruling party is engaging in exercises to regain its lost courage. Prime Minister Costas Simitis visited Iraklion, Crete - PASOK's decades-old stronghold - while, following his pilgrimage in Kalenzti, Socialist party chairman-in-waiting George Papandreou headed for Thrace, anticipating a warm embrace by the Muslim minority as a reward for his Turkey policy.
Unlike Papandreou, however, the Muslims of Greece do not forget the fact that the open-horizons and equal-opportunities policy for the Christian and Muslim populations in Thrace was first promoted by former conservative prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis. |
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