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News: Greece

We have started to collect the most important news related to Greece in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Greece: news

Greece probes police 'beatings'

Monday, February 4th 2013, 18:07

Greece launches an inquiry into whether four suspected bank robbers were beaten in police custody, after their altered mug shots are released.
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Greek protesters target minister

Wednesday, January 30th 2013, 23:18
related places: Athens

Greek police make 33 arrests after anti-austerity protesters storm the Athens offices of employment minister Yiannis Vroutsis.
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Greek minister eyes 2014 recovery

Tuesday, January 29th 2013, 0:59

Greece's finance minister is optimistic about his country coming out of recession by the end of 2013 and says chances of a euro exit are "very small".
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VIDEO: Cold Greeks turn to illegal logging

Monday, January 28th 2013, 9:39

As the big freeze sets in across parts of Europe, more people in Greece are choosing to burn wood at home as they can no longer afford heating oil.
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Athens 10-day metro strike ends

Friday, January 25th 2013, 16:08
related places: Athens

A 10-day strike by metro workers in the Greek capital, Athens, ends after the government threatened them with arrest unless they returned to work.
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VIDEO: Transport strike paralyses Athens

Friday, January 25th 2013, 15:07
related places: Athens

Traffic gridlock has paralysed Athens as Greek commuters struggle to work by car, amid a public transport strike.
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Transport strike paralyses Athens

Friday, January 25th 2013, 11:46
related places: Athens

Traffic gridlock paralyses Greece's capital as commuters struggle to work amid a public transport strike, as police seek to end a metro workers' sit-in.
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Raid breaks up Greek metro strike

Friday, January 25th 2013, 7:36
related places: Athens

Greek police storm a sit-in by striking Athens underground train workers, enforcing a government order requiring them to return to work.
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Greece threatens striking workers

Thursday, January 24th 2013, 18:17
related places: Athens

Greece's government threatens transport workers whose eight-day strike has crippled the Athens metro, telling them to return to work or face arrest.
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Athens rally against Golden Dawn

Saturday, January 19th 2013, 21:49
related places: Athens

Some 3,000 people take part in a demonstration in the Greek capital Athens to protest against the rise of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn.
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Ex-Greek minister faces tax probe

Friday, January 18th 2013, 1:01

The Greek parliament votes to investigate ex-finance Minister George Papaconstantinou for allegedly tampering with a list suspected tax evaders.
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AUDIO: Greek tax scandal is 'almost comical'

Thursday, January 17th 2013, 9:31

The BBC Athens correspondent Mark Lowen reports that the Greek parliament is voting today on whether to investigate high-ranking ministers for allegedly mishandling the Lagarde list.
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Shots fired at Greece party HQ

Monday, January 14th 2013, 10:28
related places: Athens

Bullets are fired at the Athens headquarters of Greece's ruling New Democracy party, but nobody is hurt.
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Greek MPs approve fresh tax rises

Saturday, January 12th 2013, 6:41
related places: Athens

Greek MPs approve tax rises aimed at boosting revenue in line with Athens' pledge to international creditors, but the opposition condemns the move.
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Greek media targeted by arsonists

Friday, January 11th 2013, 22:39

The homes of five Greek journalists are targeted in arson attacks apparently carried out by anarchists angry at media coverage of the economic crisis.
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Greece unemployment hits EU high

Thursday, January 10th 2013, 12:09

The latest unemployment rate for Greece rises to 26.8%, the highest figure recorded in the European Union.
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New five-euro note has goddess

Thursday, January 10th 2013, 11:44

The ancient Greek goddess Europa is featured on the new five-euro note, which the European Central Bank is poised to unveil.
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The tourists beaten by Greek police

Thursday, January 10th 2013, 0:16

The tourists mistaken for migrants and beaten by Greek police
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The Greek island of old age

Monday, January 7th 2013, 0:08

The island with the secrets to a long life
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VIDEO: What's the secret to a long life?

Sunday, January 6th 2013, 7:08

Doctors have been studying the diet and lifestyle of the population of Ikaria in Greece because residents there live around 10 years longer than people in other developed Western countries.
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VIDEO: New year meal for Athens' homeless

Wednesday, January 2nd 2013, 2:01
related places: Athens

Hundreds of poor and homeless people in Greece's capital have spent New Year's Day queuing to get a free meal.
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Greek ex-minister faces inquiry

Monday, December 31st 2012, 14:48

Greece's coalition government backs the investigation and potential trial of former Finance Minister, George Papaconstantinou, for allegedly shielding his relatives from a tax inquiry.
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In pictures: Greece's year of tumult

Monday, December 31st 2012, 8:22

A turbulent year for struggling Greece
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Greek party expels ex-minister

Friday, December 28th 2012, 22:35

Greece's socialist party expels ex-Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou over allegations he tried to shield relatives from a tax probe.
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VIDEO: Athens to get first mosque

Friday, December 28th 2012, 9:28
related places: Athens

There are plans to build a mosque in Athens in 2013 to cater for thousands of Muslim migrants, but the near-bankrupt country may find it hard to deliver.
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Athens - capital without a mosque

Friday, December 28th 2012, 3:04

The only European Union capital not to have a mosque
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New evidence over Greek 'assault'

Monday, December 24th 2012, 14:12

Greek police submit a BBC tape to prosecutors investigating allegations that members of the far-right Golden Dawn party attacked a radical leftist MP.
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Greece 'migrant neglect shameful'

Thursday, December 20th 2012, 0:58

The Greek government faces a "humanitarian crisis" over its systematic mistreatment of migrants and asylum-seekers, Amnesty International says.
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S&P raises Greece's credit rating

Tuesday, December 18th 2012, 19:23

Standard and Poor's raises Greece's credit rating, praising the "strong determination" of fellow eurozone countries to help it stay in the grouping.
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Greek MP 'attacked by far-right'

Monday, December 17th 2012, 15:36
related places: Athens

A Greek left-wing MP says he was attacked in Athens by three men claiming to be supporters of the far-right party Golden Dawn.
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VIDEO: Greek football finds unusual sponsors

Monday, December 17th 2012, 10:13

Funding for amateur football has been drastically cut, so two local teams in central Greece have resorted to unusual sponsorship to make ends meet.
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Bailout cash for Greece approved

Thursday, December 13th 2012, 11:55

Greece is to get the latest tranche of bailout funds needed to keep the country going, eurozone finance ministers agree.
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Greece reveals buyback results

Wednesday, December 12th 2012, 13:10

Greece manages to buy back some of its debt at just over a third of its value, which means it should receive much-needed bailout money later this week.
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Syria's Orthodox patriarch dies

Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 12:51
related countries: Lebanon Lebanon, Syria Syria

The Greek Orthodox patriarch of Syria, Ignatius IV (Hazim), has died in neighbouring Lebanon at the age of 92, officials say.
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Greece 'most corrupt' EU country

Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 10:28

Greece is perceived to have the most corrupt public sector of all 27 EU countries, a new global survey reveals.
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