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5 days ago | ekathimerini.com | Nektaria Stamouli

POLITICS PREVIEW Minister indictment, Sinai Monastery dispute and farm fraud top agenda View of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, shown in 1990. [AP Photo] The indictment of former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis for his role in the deadly Tempe rail crash remains at the forefront of Greece’s political agenda this week, as the government grapples with the contentious issue.

5 days ago | ekathimerini.com | Yiouli Eptakili

OPINION The water torture in the fields A child plays in a dried-up lakebed in Thessaly, which was devastated by floods as a result of Storm Daniel in September of last year and is now battling drought. ‘We’ve developed a program to ensure we have enough water by the end of August,’ says Dimitris Tsiouris, president of TOEB Pineios. [ΑΜΝΑ] Tomatoes love two things: light and water. In order for its seeds to grow properly, they need plenty of light.

6 days ago | ekathimerini.com | Vassilis Nedos

OPINION The conversation we’re not having Greeks over the age of 40 may remember the early 1990s push out of central Athens and into the suburbs. Bankrolled almost exclusively by their savings, Athenians left behind old apartments in the city center in favor of newly built ones to its north and south, houses with better insulation, new windows and doors and the latest – at the time – earthquake protection standards.

1 week ago | ekathimerini.com | Sakis Ioannidis

CULTURE ‘In Situ’ guided tours of culture and history by Kathimerini The ‘In Situ’ tour included the choir rehearsal room [Vangelis Zavos] The journalists of Kathimerini can attest that one of the advantages of working for a legacy newspaper with a weighty name is access. All of us, chasing a good story or recording a news item, have found ourselves in places, spaces and locations that are not intended for everyone.

1 week ago | ekathimerini.com | Despina Konti

NEWS Athens trolley bus fleet upgrade being mulled The Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) has earmarked 30,000 euros to commission a study on upgrading the Greek capital’s trolley bus network as part of an ongoing overhaul of public transportation. “The overhead trolleybus network – Europe’s largest – is not being abolished, but changes are under consideration.