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Patrick Fitzgerald takes on Socrates at mock trial
Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors. On Thursday, the former top prosecutor got a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Greek Parliament votes to investigate ex-minister
Greek lawmakers voted early Friday to investigate former finance minister George Papaconstantinou over his handling of data on Greeks with Swiss bank ...
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 ...
Greece: Shots fired at ruling party HQ
A gunman fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of Greece's governing center-right New Democracy party near central Athens early Monday, with ...
Greek gold mine savior to some, curse to others
Barbed wire cuts across woodland patrolled by dozens of private security guards. Burly and stony-faced, they demand identity cards from anyone trying ...
Quake in Aegean Sea shakes Turkey and Greece
An earthquake centered beneath the Aegean Sea shook cities and islands in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday, causing panic in some areas but no injuries ...
Greek ex-finance minister caught up in scandal
Greece's former finance minister is at the center of an escalating political scandal after three of his relatives were allegedly found missing from ...
Greek public sector cutbacks trigger strike
Civil servants in Greece staged a 24-hour strike Wednesday, as thousands gathered to protest new pay cuts as well as suspensions that are expected to ...
EU: Tax collection still lagging in Greece
Greece is failing to collect the tax it is owed and is in danger of missing key targets that need to be met to reduce the government's staggering debt ...
Greece to buy back 31.9 billion euros of bonds
Greece will buy back €31.9 billion ($41.5 billion) of its bonds from private investors at a third of their nominal price, the debt agency said ...
Greece to announce bond buyback results Wednesday
Greece will reveal the results of a key debt buyback deal Wednesday, after an extended deadline for private investors to decide whether they will sell ...
Greece extends bond buyback deadline for a day
In an attempt to generate stronger participation in its key government bond buyback program, Greece on Monday extended the deadline for banks, funds ...