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Kidnap claims challenged Polydoras suggests Pakistanis abducted fellow countrymen last year Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras denied in Parliament yesterday that Pakistani migrants had been abducted by agents and said that kidnapping was a «national sport» in Greece's Pakistani community - a comment which was labeled as being racist by opposition parties.

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EU urges Turkey to open its ports

The European Union instructed Turkey yesterday to proceed with its political reforms...

Police carrying criminals’ guns

Some law enforcers are taking it into their own hands to arm themselves by using confiscated guns from crime scenes...

Homing in on phone tappers

The name of the owner of a landline that was used to repeatedly call one of the mobile phones involved in the phone-tapping scandal is known to the watchdog investigating the matter, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.

Court silences Attica quarries

Residents of Markopoulo, eastern Attica, will be able to sleep easier after the Council of State ordered two local quarries to shut down, putting an end to early-morning dynamite explosions.

Fishermen try to reel in Brussels over ban

Greece's amateur fishermen - who are thought to number more than 96,000 - have complained to the European Commission over its plans to ban them from fishing with nets and trawl-lines, their union said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Parents to sue doctors after daughter dies from undiagnosed appendicitis : The parents of an 18-year-old girl from Drama in northern Greece who died late on Thursday...

More than 6 percent rise in 14 years : The number of foreigners living in Greece rose sharply from 1990-2004, according to Eurostat...

Columbia protest : Residents in Rizoupolis said yesterday that they are appealing to the Council of State...

Murder suspect : Police said yesterday that a 25-year-old man has confessed to the murder of artist Panayiotis Korovesis...

Armed robberies : An armed man held up a Wackenhut security guard who was about to refill an ATM machine with 20,000 euros in cash in Kolonos...

Cyprus elections : Ballot boxes were prepared in Nicosia yesterday for tomorrow's parliamentary elections in Cyprus...

Kidnappers caught : Two men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at an Athens brothel and the kidnap of a 27-year-old prostitute...

German School : The of Athens is celebrating 110 years since it was founded...


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EDITORIAL

Clear rules for the environment The fact that two enormous quarries have been operating just outside Athens - and doing so without a license for some 33 years - reveals more than anything the Greek state's inability to protect the environment. The fact that just last year these quarries obtained a double license, both to restore the environment and to carry out mining operations, shows the illogical workings of Greece's bureaucracy on this issue.

COMMENTARY

The era of codes The critical rejection of «The Da Vinci Code,» both at the Cannes Film Festival and around the world, seems to have had no effect at all on its commercial success. Audiences are lining up to watch it. The same goes for the original book by Dan Brown. Critics slammed and derided it, but the public lapped it up. This divergent response is not based on different approaches to a work of art. «The Da Vinci Code» is clearly not a work of art in the formal sense.

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