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Longest night in Cyprus talks Annan mulls final draft after getting comments from both sides, EU ready to accommodate deal Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday presented UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan with a four-page proposal for changes to Annan's blueprint for Cyprus's reunification.

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Olympic spending ‘out of control’

Spending for the August Games has soared out of control, with costs for the main Athens Olympic complex already 50 percent above the initial budget, the government said yesterday.

Flame comes to Athens today

Six days after the lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia, the Olympic Flame is due to arrive in Athens this evening...

Country life makes Greeks fat

Some 70 percent of Greek men and 50 percent of Greek women weigh more than they ought to, according to new research published yesterday, which also found that married Greeks tend to be fatter than bachelors. Only 31 percent of all men and 47.2 percent of women were found to be within the normal weight range, while 1.9 percent of men and 4.7 percent of women were below the norm, according to figures presented by the Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity...

Ukrainian painter held for 1995 blast

A Ukrainian former security officer wanted in his country for a lethal bomb attack in 1995 has been arrested in central Athens, where he had been living legally for the past few years working as a house painter, police said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Transport chaos expected as labor demands more pay, less work : A nationwide 24-hour strike today is expected to paralyze all forms of public transport...

Court acquits policemen of raping Ukrainian sex slave : A Patras jury court early yesterday acquitted a policeman serving in the western Peloponnesian town of Amaliada...

Three TV stations to pay 150,000 : The National Radio and Television Council (ESR) yesterday imposed fines totaling 150,000 euros...

Murder arrest : A gardener at a Thessaloniki psychiatric hospital with a history of mental illness was arrested yesterday...

ELA trial : The estranged former wife of Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) terrorism suspect Angeletos Kanas is to testify today...

May Day : Labor and Social Security Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos yesterday signed a decision declaring May 1 an official holiday...

Roadwork : Work on the new tram line that is to link the center of Athens with the southern suburbs will affect traffic...

No roadwork : While work to resurface Greece's national roads is to intensify ahead of the August Olympics, builders will desist...


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Thorns on the path toward reunification
EDITORIAL

EU acquis Since the first draft of the UN peace plan was made public and its main snags pointed out, numerous politicians and commentators have already said that Cyprus's main opportunity lies in reaching a settlement that would allow it to function as a single state and as a full EU member.

COMMENTARY

The pogrom that never was One of PASOK's main arguments in the runup to the poll was that a conservative victory would unleash a massive pogrom of the public sector. Remarks by New Democracy's Vyron Polydoras that 10,000 officials would be dismissed as soon as the new government took over, were accentuated by PASOK in its ultimate attempt to rally its fighting forces. Now, nearly a month since ND came to power, the scaremongers of yesterday accuse ND of lacking the requisite number of competent and tested officials to replace current staff...

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