Posts Tagged ‘athens’
Monday, February 6th, 2012
The cuts are part of new austerity measures that Athens must agree on to secure rescue funds from international lenders.
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Greece to Eliminate 15,000 Government Jobs
Tags: athens, fda, Funds, Greece, international, lender, lenders, must-agree, new-austerity, secure, secure-rescue
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
The chief negotiators for Greece’s private creditors leave Athens without securing a deal to write off some of the country’s debts.

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Talks on Greek debt deal hit snag
Tags: athens, country, debt, Greece, private-creditors, red, sec
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Talks stall between Greece and its private sector lenders over a 50% debt write-off, which is needed to stop Athens going bust.

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Greece debt write-off talks stall
Tags: athens, debt, Greece, lender, lenders, lenders-over, nee, private-sector, sec, stall-between, talk
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
The Italian Senate approved a package of austerity measures, and in Athens, leaders of a new three-party coalition completed details of a unity government.
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Italy and Greece Move More Forcefully on Debt Crisis
Tags: athens, austerity, austerity-measures, berlusconi, silvio, border, coal, coalition-completed, government, italian, italy, leader, monti, mario, new-three-party, pac, rove
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Greek leaders meeting in Athens agree to form a new coalition government, with a fresh prime minister replacing the beleaguered George Papandreou.

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Greeks agree coalition government
Tags: athens, beleaguered, coal, fresh-prime, george, government, leaders-meeting, minister-replacing, new-coalition, the-beleaguered
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
A 24-hour public transport strike hits Greece and a mass protest looms in Athens as anger mounts over a new raft of tough austerity measures.

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Greeks strike over new austerity
Tags: 24-hour-public, anger-mounts, athens, austerity, Greece, new-raft, protest, public, tough-austerity, transport-strike
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Founded in Athens, Ga., in 1980, the band R.E.M. helped to invent the alternative-rock sound that influenced a generation of musicians.
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The End of R.E.M., and They Feel Fine
Tags: 1980, athens, berry, bill, cia, generation, influence, invent-the-alternative, sound, stipe, michael
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Newsnight’s Paul Mason reports from the streets of Athens where Greek police clashed with anti-austerity protesters near parliament, and unions held a general strike.

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VIDEO: Greece’s new level of social crisis
Tags: athens, clash, from-the-streets, mason, News, parliament, police-clashed, protest, protesters, protesters-near, streets, the-streets, union, unions
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
Greek leaders meeting in Athens fail to give cross-party support to Prime Minister George Papandreou’s new austerity plan.

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Greek austerity negotiations fail
Tags: art, athens, austerity, george, george-papandreou, leader, leaders-meeting, new-austerity, prime, prime-minister
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Police in Athens clash with protesters as a major strike against austerity measures brings many services in Greece to a halt.

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Tear gas fired at Athens protest
Tags: against-austerity, athens, austerity, clash, Greece, major-strike, measures-brings, police, protest, protesters
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Two Greek sprinters are given suspended jail terms for staging a motorbike crash to skip a doping test before the Athens Olympics.

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Greek sprinters guilty of perjury
Tags: aging, athens, before-the-athens, doping-test, given-suspended, greek, jail, jail-terms, motorbike-crash
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
A police officer in Athens was hit with a petrol bomb as more than thirty thousand protesters marched through the streets.

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VIDEO: Policeman hit by petrol bomb in Greece
Tags: athens, bomb, bomb-as-more, police, police-officer, protest, protesters, protesters-marched, streets, through-the-streets, usa
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Police fire tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in Athens as a 24-hour general strike grips Greece.

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Clashes erupt amid Greece strike
Tags: 24-hour-general, athens, disperse-stone-throwing, fire, fire-tear, Gas, police, strike-grips, tear gas, tone
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens for a protest marred by violence as a general strike brought international travel and public services to a standstill.
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Anti-Austerity Protest in Greece Turns Violent
Tags: athens, border, brought-international, general-strike, politics and government, public, public-services, streets, Travel
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Monday, November 15th, 2010
Greece’s governing Socialist party wins control of the capital Athens, in the second round of local elections dominated by the country’s debt crisis.

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Pasok wins mayoral poll in Athens
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