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Virus identity remains a mystery Number of new suspected heart inflammation cases drops, raising hopes as more schools close

One day after ordering all schools, kindergartens, universities and technical colleges to close until the end of the week, the government yesterday added dance, music and drama schools and frontistiria (private coaching colleges) to the list of educational institutions to shut down.
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France, polls rock PASOK
The rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France's presidential elections and the demise of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's bid have shaken the ruling PASOK party.
Commission urges reforms
Greece must carry out urgent structural reforms in all sectors of the economy, focusing in particular on reducing the public debt and sanitizing the ailing social security system by the end of this year, a key European Commission economic report warned yesterday.
Footballer caught in crossfire
The fate of a Turkish-Cypriot footballer who abandoned his team in the occupied north to play for a Greek-Cypriot side that rejected him on grounds of ethnic impurity remained uncertain yesterday...
Evening hours for 34 museums
Entry to Greece's museums and archaeological sites will be free for a few more days every year, while the opening hours of 34 museums will be extended to allow visitors access until late in the evening...
Mayor keeps Athens suitors at his door
Athens Mayor Dimitris Avramopoulos, whose second four-year term ends in October, met yesterday at City Hall with Dora Bakoyianni, the New Democracy party candidate for the capital.
IN BRIEF
Rescue mission suspended after Israel denies access : A government-backed humanitarian mission — due to take a team of rescue...
Tougher penalties for sexual exploitation, child pornography : A draft law intended to crack down on the sexual exploitation and trafficking of women...
Trial adjourned for today
The trial of a group of 12 British and two Dutch planespotters...
Bad roads.
A motorcyclist who was permanently disabled after foundering in a ditch dug...
Residents protest.
More than 150 residents of the southern Athens suburb of Aghios Cosmas...
Roadworks.
Works on creating a bus lane on Vassilisis Sofias Avenue in central Athens began...
Armenians protest.
Dozens of Armenians demonstrated yesterday outside the Turkish Embassy in central Athens...
Chute accident.
A conscript whose parachute failed to open fully following a midair collision...
Weston visit.
US Special Envoy for Cyprus Thomas Weston is to meet Alternate Foreign Minister...
The real thing.
A bell-shaped ancient Boeotian figurine — used as a model for the 2004 Olympics mascots...
Benaki Museum.
Athens’s Benaki Museum will be closed today due to strike action by staff seeking higher pay.


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Foreign Minister George Papandreou...
EDITORIAL
New mentality
There are growing indications that the political earthquake from the outcome of the French presidential elections, which has sent shock waves throughout Europe, has scarcely affected Greece's political elite. National parties have reacted with an attempt to adapt this devastating event to their current policy needs. The results have been tragicomic. The reaction by PASOK's reformists has prompted ironic remarks, if not indignation, as they have attempted to build an anti-rightist front...
COMMENTARY
Communication tricks
Driven by despair, the spin doctors for the ruling Socialist party seem determined to try anything that might bolster PASOK's image. The new team, whose job it is to improve the Socialists' image, is faced with a daunting task. Things appear grim in the government camp, as, instead of a «second wave of modernization,» the party has been engulfed by a huge wave of public disappointment.
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