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ND back to full strength Independent MP to rejoin party after prosecutor shelves graft probe for good New Democracy is preparing to welcome back into its fold independent MP Costas Koukodimos after a prosecutor decided yesterday to shelve for good the probe into the deputy allegedly acting as a middleman between the former head of the financial crimes squad and a journalist.

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Authorities optimistic on landfill challenge

Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos yesterday expressed conviction that authorities would close down the majority of the country's illegal landfills by the end of the year and would elude stinging fines from the European Commission.

‘Neglect’ fueling more Attica fires

Attica has seen a large spike in forest fires this year, according to statistics made public yesterday by the fire service, which blamed inadequate measures by local authorities as well as the «occasionally criminal neglect and indifference» of the public for many recent blazes.

Church tension running high

The head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, will attend a service in Kiev on Sunday despite threats by the Russian Orthodox Church that it could split from the Ecumenical Patriarchate over possible recognition of the Ukrainian Church.

Islanders lose case for sole right to be Lesbian

An Athens court yesterday rejected an appeal by residents of the Aegean island of Lesvos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women.

IN BRIEF

Greek FM appears calm as her deputy seeks EU support : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis appeared unconcerned yesterday when questioned about a letter sent to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...

Thieves take 150,000 euros : Police were yesterday seeking to determine how unidentified burglars entered the home of the well-known painter Alekos Fassianos...

Serbian step : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said yesterday that the capture of former Bosnian Serb leader and war crime suspect Radovan Karadzic would help Serbia...

Metro stoppage : There will be no metro service between 5 and 9 a.m. today because of a work stoppage by employees...

Clean water : Laboratory tests on samples of tap water from 44 municipalities and communities in eastern Attica have shown that it is clean...

Cocaine bust : A 34-year-old man arrested last Thursday at Athens International Airport, and subsequently found to have been carrying more than 700 grams of cocaine...

Weapons found : Weapons and ammunition that disappeared from an army firing range near Hania last December were discovered in four homes...


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Fire in Kokkino Nero... A boy who has covered his face with a T-shirt flees an approaching fire in Kokkino Nero in central Greece.

EDITORIAL

Hunting tax-haven cheats Prosecutors in Germany, Britain and the United States have already pressed charges against people named in the confidential bank data on the clients of Liechtenstein's offshore tax haven. The German authorities went as far as to pay an informant to get hold of secret details on German citizens with accounts in the well-known tax haven. The list in question contains the names of some 15,000 tax evaders and should naturally also feature a number of Greek nationals. True to form, Greece's authorities have dragged their feet over the case. That hardly comes as a surprise to observers, given that Greek officials tend to settle the obligations of high-profile individuals on more favorable terms.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

It’s a jungle out there The growing desperation with which Athenians watch their Hopefully, teams of social anthropologists are out in our streets, night and day, taking meticulous notes on the behavior of Athenian taxi drivers, working on studies that will shed light on one of the most bizarre groups in modern society and offer suggestions on how to remedy the situation. Because the eclectic horde that drives our yellow fleet is as unique and as fascinating as any undiscovered Amazonian tribe. But unlike primitive tribes that are suddenly thrust into the 21st century, Greek cabbies are a modern tribe that lives by the rules of pre-agricultural society.

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