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Athens, Nicosia on track Cyprus stresses autonomy in pursuing oil plans; Greek PM slams Ankara Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and visiting Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday agreed that Cyprus was free to pursue offshore oil and gas exploration without the consent of any other state.

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Tertiary reforms prompt rancor

PASOK said yesterday that it will vote against the government's bill on university reforms...

Railway ticket prices chopped

The cost of some journeys on the Proastiakos suburban railway will soon be reduced...

Cities can burn ‘some garbage’

The use of burning or drying treatments to process waste is acceptable but only in big cities and combined with improved recycling, according to a study by the Andreas Papandreou Institute of Strategic Development Studies (ISTAME).

Piraeus home deals ‘at risk’

The land registry in Piraeus is in such an «exceptionally bad state» that records of property ownership are in danger of being lost and home purchases are being unnecessarily delayed, the Ombudsman said yesterday.

Greek and Turkish forensic experts...

Greek and Turkish forensic experts used a mechanical digger yesterday to help them exhume the remains of missing people...

Road sign vandals on one-way route to court

Authorities revealed yesterday that they are taking 79 people to court in connection with the vandalizing of road signs...

IN BRIEF

Minister announces expropriation of 'significant' site in Menidi : Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis yesterday announced that a site in Menidi, where sections of an ancient theater were discovered last week, would be expropriated...

Road accidents down by 20 percent : Traffic accidents during the Clean Monday three-day weekend were down by 20 percent this year compared to last year...

Disabled overlooked : Campaigners for disabled people in Greece said yesterday that up to 180,000 people have been excluded from the education process...

Fan jailed : A 23-year-old PAOK fan was sentenced to 17 months in jail yesterday after a court in Thessaloniki found him guilty...

Prison violence : Guards at the new prison in Trikala, central Greece, said yesterday that they had confiscated several makeshift knives...

Pieria quakes : Two earthquakes, measuring 4 and 4.5 on the Richter scale, struck the northern prefecture of Pieria early yesterday...

TODAY Members of the civil servants' union ADEDY stage a work stoppage from 11.30 a.m. to the end of their shift over wage demands and in support of university teachers and students. Protesters will demonstrate at noon in front of Athens University...


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EDITORIAL

Obeying the law needs no fanfare The back of every road sign in Greece carries that very clear warning: «Any damage carries a maximum two-year prison sentence.» The statement is drawn from an old piece of legislation whose implementation was announced in an official press release issued yesterday under the heading: «An initiative by the minister of public order to tackle the damage of road signs.»

COMMENTARY

Solomos, yesterday Yesterday marked 150 years since the death of Dionysios Solomos, in 1857 on the Ionian island of Corfu. Celebrations on the bicentennial of his birth in 1998 seem to have dulled the mood to honor the memory of the poet in the same depth and breadth that we should this year. Of course there are events being organized, but announcements so far makes it appear as though there are not as many of them as there were in 1998. There are certainly fewer than there were in 1957, the centennial of the poet's death, when the events were led by a significant exhibition at the French Institute, then under Octave Merlier.

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