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Acropolis Museum rising Will be completed by the end of 2006, says deputy culture minister The long-awaited and much-delayed Acropolis Museum will be ready by the end of next year, the government said yesterday, while insisting that it would keep up its efforts toward the return of the Elgin Marbles so they can be housed in the new building.

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ND ejects stubborn Piraeus deputy

The Piraeus MP who declared himself an independent deputy on Monday after graft allegations against him was thrown out of New Democracy yesterday...

Cheesy win pleases Greeks

Athens welcomed the «historic» decision yesterday by the European court, which ruled in favor of Greece having the exclusive right over the feta name for cheese...

Sting nets 110 kilos of drug

Police in central Macedonia yesterday arrested two members of what is believed to be a major drug-smuggling ring, despite an attempt by one of them to avert officers...

Electronic crime rate up sharply

Thousands of Alpha Bank customers have been receiving e-mails requesting private account details from senders pretending to represent the bank, authorities said yesterday...

Store found selling 10-year-old pasta

Hoarding dried goods may be common practice in many Greek households but when supermarkets get in on the act, there is cause for alarm, as Piraeus food safety inspectors found out...

IN BRIEF

Papadopoulos, Prescott display will to improve strained relations : Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos and British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott yesterday both stressed...

No flight disruptions expected : Flights to and from Greek airports are not expected to be disrupted...

Ankara visit : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will pay an official visit...

Population rise : Greece's population rose in 2004 despite more deaths being recorded than births...

ID cards : Greek citizens should be able to receive a police identity card...

BBC Greek : The Greek Section of the BBC World Service, which broadcasts international news in Greek, is to close down...

Murder reconstruction : A 19-year-old soldier, charged with the fatal beating of...

Students attacked : Police in Athens yesterday arrested a 23-year-old man believed to have stabbed...

Daily bread : Bakers reminded customers yesterday that they will need...

Cement block : A Swedish man was arrested yesterday at the Kakavia border post...


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EDITORIAL

Wanted: Action on TV slandering The protests over the past few days in reaction to the appearance of self-styled TV prosecutors give cause for a bit of optimism in an otherwise bleak landscape. A few people, at any rate, are still trying to resist the moral decline which has tainted the very essence of our democratic institutions. We shall never tire of repeating that if corruption in Greece has assumed unnerving dimensions, this is because the state has dragged its feet on the issue for years.

COMMENTARY

TV tribunals Who really has the right to get angry about so-called TV tribunals? Surely not Greece's two mainstream parties. PASOK is gloating over the revelations and verdicts of these television courts and is eager to reap political gain - just as the conservatives did when they were in opposition. Politicians from both camps have paraded across TV screens...

OPINION

A bold move is needed How are we going to escape from this awful navel gazing this autumn - the constant questions about who got paid, how much they got and how, who told lies, who appointed whom to which post and why? This isn't political life, it's an Eastern bazaar, and state funds and the state itself are the goods up for grabs.

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