Alexis Tsipras

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  Greek Conservatives Oust PM Alexis Tsipras In Election Landslide

  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted defeat Sunday in a general election won handily by the conservative New Democracy party after over four years in opposition, his office said.

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  Greek PM Alexis Tsipras Says Will Call Snap Elections After June 2

  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Sunday he would call for early polls next month after a drubbing at European and local elections.

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  Unable To Escape, Families Die In Embrace As Greece Wildfire Kills 60

  Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town killed at least 60 people, officials said, including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames.

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  Invest In Greece, You Won't Regret It, Says Greek PM

  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged French businesses on Friday to invest in Greece, as it emerges from its debt crisis, and assured them that they would not regret it.

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  Greece Lowers Voting Age To 17

  Greek lawmakers voted on Thursday to amend electoral law to lower the voting age by a year to 17 and eventually eliminate a 50 seat bonus for the winning party.

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  Greek PM Tells Erdogan Soldiers Asylum Requests To Be Examined 'Quickly'

  Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan the asylum requests of Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece on Saturday would be examined "quickly," a Greek government official said.

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  Vladimir Putin To Visit Greece In First EU Trip In A Year

  Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Greece this week, the Kremlin said today, his first official trip to an EU member state in almost a year.

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  Greece Will Return To Bond Markets Next Year: PM Alexis Tsipras

  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Saturday that Greece will return to the bond markets in 2017, seven years after losing access to the markets due to its debt crisis.

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  Greek PM To Seek EU Summit On Creditor Talks: Sources

  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will today ask European Council president Donald Tusk to call an EU summit to help facilitate negotiations with the debt-ridden country's creditors, a government source said.

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  Pope Francis To Visit Greece To Highlight Refugee Crisis

  Pope Francis will visit Greece on April 14-15, a Greek government official said on Tuesday, getting a first-hand look at the front line of Europe's migrant crisis and thousands of refugees fleeing conflict.

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  IMF Chief Says Greece Plan 'Good Distance Away' Amid Leaks Row

  International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that "we are still a good distance away" in negotiations for a new deal for hard-up Athens.

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  Greece Says Will Fix Idomeni Camp Overflow 'Within Week'

  Greece aims to deal swiftly with the migrant overflow at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border where some 12,000 people are camping in miserable conditions waiting to cross.

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  Greek PM Says Readmission Agreement With Turkey Will Help Reduce Migrant Flow

  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday that an agreement with Turkey to take back migrants rejected by the European Union would help reduce the "unbearable flow" of people streaming into the continent.

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  EU To Propose Emergency Humanitarian Aid To Greece

  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talked to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday and European Council President Donald Tusk will visit Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey this week.

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  European Union Talks In Shadow Of Migrant 'Humanitarian Crisis'

  EU interior ministers hold fresh talks on migration today, seeking to reduce the flow of people through the Balkans and plan for what the bloc has warned is a looming humanitarian crisis.