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Exiles due tomorrow? Final deal on Bethlehem 13 apparently clinched on Myconos MYCONOS (AP) - A Spanish plane will pick up 12 of the 13 Palestinian militants exiled by Israel after a siege at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and distribute them among six European Union countries...

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Public funds, private boss for railway

In two years' time, Athens will have a 51-kilometer (32-mile) suburban railway with 18 stations linking the port of Piraeus to the center of Athens and the Athens International Airport at Spata...

Hostel for sex trade victims

The first hostel in Athens for women who are victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation is to open within the next few months, it was announced yesterday.

North real estate deals are ‘illegal’

All real estate transactions in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus are illegal and people who purchase property there will lose their money, Cyprus's attorney-general warned yesterday...

Property taxes simplified

The government plans to abolish a host of property taxes and replace them with a single ownership tax whose revenue will be passed on to local authorities.

Circus man sentenced for elephant abuse

A circus manager was sentenced yesterday to four months in jail for animal abuse after a Thessaloniki misdemeanor court backed the suit of an animal rights group that had complained about the treatment of a performing elephant.

IN BRIEF

OA says mechanics did their best; lawyer claims firm avoiding damages : The Olympic Airways mechanics charged in connection with a freak accident...

Olympics hosts to cooperate in security, energy, tourism : A commission to boost cooperation between Greece and China...

Pipeline launch next month An oil pipeline connecting Thessaloniki to the OKTA refinery in Skopje...

Sailors strike. Sailors serving on all categories of vessels are to participate...

Museum strike. Some museums and archaeological sites are expected to be closed this weekend...

Exams start. End-of-term and school-leaving examinations start today and will continue until June 8...

Hotels defrauded. A Canadian national who charged his stays at Glyfada hotels to non-existent companies...

Papandreou in USA. Foreign Minister George Papandreou is due in Boston on Thursday...

Mesogeion Avenue. Roadworks which started yesterday on the section of Mesogeion Avenue...


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EDITORIAL

Graft ills escape PM Prime Minister Costas Simitis's remarks during his speech at the National Council for Administrative Reform were totally divorced from reality. «Modern public administration must continue to be meritocratic. PASOK purged public administration of partisan interests, with its law on hiring...

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This sporting life During the first phase of the war - an endless civil war which seems to gratify more people than it upsets - the clashes were led by the psiloi, the lightly armed troops (in the olden days they were known as slingers, javelin throwers, and stone throwers; today they are merely called «fans») who acted in accordance with the traditional tactics of guerrilla warfare, that is ambush followed by a quick escape.

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