Greece

Greece

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  Greek dock workers extend strike

  Greek dock workers extended a 48-hour strike for a further two days on Friday, leaving ferries tied up in port over the weekend, while Athens doctors ... 

• UN official concerned at Greek prison conditions

  A United Nations fact-finding mission has voiced concern at conditions in Greek prisons and detention facilities, lamenting overcrowding and harsh ... 

• Greece accepts $31 million bid for island plot

  Greece's state privatization fund says it has accepted a €23 million ($31 million) bid from New York-based investors to develop real estate on the ... 

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  Greek doctors, public transport workers on strike

  Greek doctors, port workers and public transport staff in the country's capital walked off the job Thursday in strikes against deeply unpopular ... 

• Greece eyes accounts of suspected tax evaders

  The Greek government wants to give tax authorities the power to empty the bank accounts of accused tax evaders, even if they have not been convicted. 

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  Protesters break into gov't building in Athens

  Protesters forced their way into a government building in Greece's latest anti-austerity protests Wednesday, reaching just outside a minister's office ... 

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  Russia likely to contribute to Cyprus bailout

  Russia is likely to contribute money to a rescue package that Cyprus is trying to finalize with eurozone partners, the cash-strapped country's finance ... 

• Last jailed member of Greek dictatorship is dead

  Nikolaos Dertilis, the last jailed member of the military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967-74, has died. He was 94. Dertilis had been ... 

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  Greece grapples with strikes despite mobilization

  Striking bus drivers in Athens have defied a court order to return to their jobs, extending last week's protests by subway employees over ... 

• Olympiakos beats Panthrakikos 1-0, extends lead

  Pablo Contreras' 86th-minute header gave league leader Olympiakos a 1-0 victory over host Panthrakikos in the Greek league Sunday. PAOK's surprise 1-0 ... 

• Court says Athens bus strike abusive, illegal

  A lower Athens court has ruled that a bus worker strike is illegal, opening the door for the government to force them to return to work. The strike, ... 

• Greek opinion polls show conservatives leading

  Three opinion polls, to be published in Greek Sunday papers, show conservative New Democracy, the main coalition government partner, slightly ahead ... 

• Panionios beats Levadiakos 2-1 in Greek league

  Panionios won for the first time in more than two months when it beat visiting Levadiakos 2-1 in the Greek league on Saturday. In that time, Panionios ... 

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  Greeks protest transport workers' pay cuts

  Greek workers have marched to parliament to protest upcoming pay cuts for transport workers and the government emergency decree that forced subway ... 

• Subway work in Greece unearths ancient gold wreath

  Excavation work during construction of a new subway network in Greece's second largest city has discovered an ancient wreath made of gold that was ... 

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  Greek subway staff end strike after police raid

  Striking subway workers in Athens returned to the job Friday, hours after the Greek government used riot police to evacuate holdouts from a train ... 

• Greek militant anarchists claim shopping mall bomb

  Militant anarchists claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb blast in an Athens shopping mall that lightly wounded two security guards during a ... 

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  Greek gov't forcing end to Athens metro strike

  Greece's government announced emergency powers Thursday to force striking subway workers back to work, with those defying it risking dismissal, arrest ... 

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  In crisis, Greeks turn to wood-burning - and choke

  Fireplaces were long a status symbol for Greece's up-and-coming middle class, like the second car and the flat-screen TV. Now, they are increasingly ... 

• Greek statistics dissenter: deficit was inflated

  A former state official at the center of a criminal case over the way the Greek statistics agency calculated budget figures — which had an impact on ... 

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  Eurozone debt burden stuck amid low growth

  The eurozone failed to reduce its government debt in the third quarter of last year, as meager growth offset efforts by several of the bloc's 17 ... 

• Greek opposition leader seeks to reassure the US

  Greece's leftist opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, was in Washington on Tuesday seeking to reassure U.S. officials that he would lead a responsible ... 

• Greek statistics head faces charges over revision

  Greek prosecutors recommended Tuesday that charges be brought against the head of the statistics agency and two other employees for allegedly ...