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We have started to collect the most important news related to Greece in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
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 police make 33 arrests after anti-austerity protesters storm the Athens offices of employment minister Yiannis Vroutsis.
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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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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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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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Traffic gridlock has paralysed Athens as Greek commuters struggle to work by car, amid a public transport strike.
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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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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'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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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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The Greek parliament votes to investigate ex-finance Minister George Papaconstantinou for allegedly tampering with a list suspected tax evaders.
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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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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 tax rises aimed at boosting revenue in line with Athens' pledge to international creditors, but the opposition condemns the move.
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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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The latest unemployment rate for Greece rises to 26.8%, the highest figure recorded in the European Union.
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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 mistaken for migrants and beaten by Greek police
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The island with the secrets to a long life
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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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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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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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A turbulent year for struggling Greece
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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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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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The only European Union capital not to have a mosque
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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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The Greek government faces a "humanitarian crisis" over its systematic mistreatment of migrants and asylum-seekers, Amnesty International says.
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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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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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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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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 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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Lebanon, 
SyriaThe 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 is perceived to have the most corrupt public sector of all 27 EU countries, a new global survey reveals.
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