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New clues unearthed in complex antiquities case Workshop found, artifacts traced back to int’l auction houses A search of the villa on the island of Schinoussa where hundreds of illegal antiquities have been found has revealed a workshop which may have produced copies of the items, authorities said yesterday, as police looked for an underground crypt on the property which is thought to contain yet more treasures.

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Hospitals ordered to shape up

Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos yesterday gave hospital directors until fall to implement a 10-point plan aimed at improving the quality of service offered...

Train safety gathering steam

The process of identifying all the level crossings in northern Greece and assessing their safety began yesterday as a prosecutor examined what caused an accident on Sunday night...

Police target city scroungers

A police crackdown over the past few days has focused on curbing two scourges of Athenian daily and nightly life: begging at intersections and illegal parking at nightclubs...

Tough laws to punish road hogs

In a bid to curb Greece's spike in traffic accidents, the Transport Ministry is revising road rules that will become tougher on drivers running red lights and ignoring stop signs...

Jailed pensioner gets bailed out by children

An 82-year-old woman imprisoned on Monday for not paying an outstanding debt to the state was freed from jail yesterday after the fine was settled by her children...

IN BRIEF

Parliament to look at possible reform of social security system after Easter : Lawmakers will start examining the country's social security system...

Most schoolchildren do not dine with parents, preferring fast food : Almost eight in 10 Greek schoolchildren rarely eat...

5-Richter tremor causes no damage : An earthquake measuring 5 Richter shook Zakynthos at 6.55 a.m. but did not cause...

Coptic protest : Coptic Christians from Egypt will hold a protest march...

Hot steam : The Development Ministry said yesterday that it was banning the sale of...

Non-daily bread : The bakers' union said yesterday that bakeries in Athens will be closed on Easter...

Fake feta : More than 100 kilos of feta cheese were seized at a factory in Argolida...

Evros strike : Employees at the Prefecture of Evros will refuse to serve the public today...

OA workers : Some 350 Olympic Airlines workers demonstrated at Macedonia airport in Thessaloniki...

Pot plants : Police arrested a man in Hania, Crete, yesterday after finding 1.3 kilos...


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Rehabilitating the health sector The announcements by Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos yesterday have catapulted the problems of the national health system back to center stage. All sides agree on the need for additional medical staff as persisting shortages have rendered virtually all of the state hospitals dysfunctional. However, the New Democracy administration must make sure it does not repeat a mistake that has plagued...

COMMENTARY

Beside the point Part of the double-talk in which the two major political parties engage, as part of their exchange of roles from government to opposition and back again, pertains to their view of the importance of opinion polls. When in government, and subject to the unavoidable attrition of power, they claim that polls simply reflect trends and are just tools for further study. When in opposition, they take poll results at face value and regard them in much in the same way as an actual election result.

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