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Academics seek dialogue ‘Committee of 1,000 Professors’ slams election disruptions as students rally A committee of hundreds of academics seeking to encourage debate about impending reforms to the state university sector yesterday condemned attempts by small groups of extremist students to disrupt university rector elections.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Heart attacks rise due to habits

One in two heart conditions could have been prevented had the patient not been a smoker or suffered from excessive weight...

Drymonakos fails doping test

Top Greek swimmer Ioannis Drymonakos, ranked second in the world in the 200-meter butterfly, has tested positive for a banned substance...

Push to raze illegal homes

Supreme Court prosecutor Giorgos Sanidas has called for the immediate demolition of all buildings that have been illegally constructed...

More oil taken off shelves

Authorities said yesterday they would withdraw all the sunflower oil that has entered the Greek market...

Family row leads to shooting, forest burial

A 42-year-old woman has been charged in Thessaloniki with shooting her husband to death and burying him...

IN BRIEF

Police charge 21 people in the biggest case of its kind for Greece : Police broke a child pornography ring and charged 21 people...

Athens taxi driver stabbed and robbed of vehicle in violent attack : An Athens taxi driver was yesterday in the hospital...

Man shoots at 'noisy' children : A Trikala man was arrested yesterday...

Flights normalize : Olympic Airlines domestic flights are set to return to normal...

Brucellosis scare : Authorities in Kavala, northeastern Greece, yesterday warned people...

Ship collision : A ferry carrying 206 passengers and 60 crew crashed...

Suspected suicide : A 50-year-old man was killed yesterday after being hit...

Woman kidnapped : Police arrested a 32-year-old woman and her 55-year-old male partner...

Moscow agreement : Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis signed a three-year cooperation agreement...


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European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon... Former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou returned to Parliament...

EDITORIAL

Mental healthcare an embarassment Many years have passed since Greece faced the shame of the horrifying conditions at the Leros mental hospital. The images that made their way around the world embarrassed and shocked us. We had hoped that the conditions of care for mental patients would only get better and better and that the first set of measures taken would be continued....

COMMENTARY

The Syria-Israel talks The news that Syria and Israel are in talks aimed at a comprehensive peace solution offer a rare breath of hope. However much experience makes us expect the worst, this seems to be the first serious effort in eight years to solve one of the Middle East's thorniest problems. It is encouraging that both protagonists need peace more than ever. Israel has reached agreements with Egypt and Jordan but this is not enough: The Palestinian resistance will not break.

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