Athens News Agency: News in English, 02-08-02

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] (copy) Police arrest another 'N17' suspect (adds)

[02] Weather Forecast: Hot and sunny on Friday

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Friday

[01] (copy) Police arrest another 'N17' suspect (adds)

Another suspected member of the ''November 17'' terrorist group, often referred to with the codename ''Aris'' by other suspects already remanded in custody, was arrested Thursday afternoon.

According to initial reports, the man placed in custody was identified as Sotirios Kondylis, 41. He was arrested off an Athens street by a police counter-terrorism squad and was reportedly under surveillance. He was taken to the Athens police headquarters where he is being questioned, reports state.

Police consider the man referred to as ''Aris'' as a leading member of the terror group's ''second generation'' assassins, with participation in numerous 'N17' attacks after 1990.

Earlier, two of the most recent suspects arrested in the ongoing investigation, Nikos Papanastasiou and Patroklos Tselentis, were led to a specially renovated maximum security cellblock at Korydallos Prison. Only Savvas Xiros, whose arrest triggered the biggest criminal probe in modern Greek history, remains hospitalised in an Athens hospital.

[02] Weather Forecast: Hot and sunny on Friday

Hot, sunny weather is forecast in all parts of the country. Winds northwesterly, light to moderate, turning strong in parts of the Aegean. In the north, temperatures will range from 17C to 32C; on the rest of the mainland and in the Ionian from 19C to 35C; and in the Aegean islands from 22C to 31C. Temperatures in Athens between 23C and 34C. Same in Thessaloniki with temperatures from 19C to 32C.

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Friday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 0.983

Pound sterling 0.632

Danish kroner 7.488

Swedish kroner 9.395

Japanese yen 117.8

Swiss franc 1.462

Norwegian kroner 7.508

Cyprus pound 0.579

Canadian dollar 1.558

Australian dollar 1.826

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