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PM rethinks strategy Karamanlis wants to leave behind graft issue after local elections The ruling conservatives will attempt to return the focus of political debate to economic and education reforms and move it away from accusations of corruption after next month's local elections, government sources told Sunday's Kathimerini.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Rare icon on its way back to monastery

A priceless icon which is thought to have the power to work miracles has been recovered some five weeks after it was stolen...

Toxic clinic waste in our trash?

More than 12,000 tons of toxic waste produced by hospitals and clinics every year may be ending up in landfills and posing a grave risk...

Woman dies in rainstorm

Heavy rain on Saturday evening led to the death of a woman in Athens and caused dangerous landslides on the Athens-Patras national road...

Schools to close again this week

Primary and nursery school teachers are due to meet with Education Minister Marietta Giannakou today in the hope of resolving a pay dispute...

The charred interior of a branch of the National Bank in Gazi...

The charred interior of a branch of the National Bank in Gazi...

Claim of euthanasia on Crete is probed

A coroner in Hania, Crete, on Saturday conducted a post-mortem on the body of a pensioner...

IN BRIEF

Bakoyannis to meet with Annan today and Rice tomorrow : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis is today due to continue...

Defense Minister Ivanov calls for cooperation in trade, defense : Greece and Russia already have extremely close ties...

Greek-Turkish exercise : Greece and Turkey on Saturday successfully carried out their first joint military operation...

SOS landing : No harm came to any of the 63 passengers aboard a Cypriot aircraft...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Mare Forum 2006 opens in Athens, bringing together the authors...

Tuesday : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis meets with Senator Hillary Clinton...

Wednesday : The Observatory for the Greek Information Society organizes...

Thursday : The Hellenic Society for Social Pediatrics and Health Promotion is holding...

Friday : The Spartathalon race, covering the 246 kilometers between Athens and Sparta, begins...


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The new Archbishop of Crete...
EDITORIAL

Talks the solution Greece's Primary Teachers' Federation (DOE) decided over the weekend to prolong its strike for another week. Regrettably, the primary and pre-school teachers union failed to take into consideration the detrimental effect of last week's strike action on the pupils in the country's schools and on planning for the academic year, which has only just begun. The one thing that is clear is that the unionists did not take into account the impact of their mobilization...

COMMENTARY

Sign of the times The demand for transparent governance is as old as the state of Greece. But the recent wave of corruption allegations shows that this demand remains unfulfilled. Greece is a country with high levels of social mobility and wealth redistribution. At the same time, business activity is mostly about establishing ties with the political establishment.

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