Athens

Athens

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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 ... 

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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 ... 

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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 ... 

• 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 ... 

• 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, ... 

• 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 ... 

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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 ... 

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  Athens' striking subway workers defy court order

  Striking subway workers in Athens defied a court order to return to their jobs and continued their protest for a sixth day on Tuesday, as ... 

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  Bomb explodes at Athens shopping mall, 2 wounded

  A bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Athens on Sunday, slightly wounding two security guards and forcing the evacuation of about 200 people. 

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  March protests immigrant's slaying in Greece

  Several thousand people marched through central Athens on Saturday to protest a spate of anti-immigrant attacks in Greece, including the fatal ... 

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  IMF: Greece recovering, needs more EU cash

  Greece has salvaged its economic recovery program following months of political uncertainty but still faces "enormous" challenges and will need new ... 

• 2 Greeks charged in Pakistani immigrant's killing

  Two Greeks were charged Friday with the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani immigrant, which rights groups and mainstream political parties have denounced ... 

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  Greece: Race motive suspected in migrant murder

  Police arrested two Greek men accused of stabbing a Pakistani immigrant worker to death in Athens on Thursday, and are investigating whether the ... 

• Greek police bust migrant smuggling ring

  Greek police have dismantled an international migrant trafficking ring that had been using boats to smuggle hundreds of people, mainly Syrians, from ... 

• Greek doctors, Athens metro workers on strike

  Greek doctors and workers at the Athens metro system have walked off the job, striking to protest salary cuts that are part of harsh austerity ... 

• Greek borrowing costs dip in new T-bill sale

  Greece's borrowing costs are continuing to fall following the latest successful auction of short-term debt that raised €1.62 billion ($2.16 billion).