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Young Greek Women Selling Sex For The Price of a Sandwich, New Study Shows
Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity has pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed Friday.
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Striking Greeks Take to Tension-Filled Streets in Austerity Protest
Striking Greeks took to the streets on Thursday to protest austerity measures, setting Alexis Tsipras' government its biggest domestic challenge since he was re-elected in September promising to cushion the impact of economic hardship.
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International Monetary Fund Calls for Greece Debt Relief Ahead of Bailout Vote
An International Monetary Fund study published on Tuesday showed that Greece needs far more debt relief than European governments have been willing to contemplate so far, as fractious parties in Athens prepared to vote on a sweeping austerity package demanded by their lenders.
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Eurozone's Poorer Nations Take Hard Line on Greece
The eurozone's poorer former communist nations, having themselves endured painful market reforms and austerity programmes, are taking a hard line on Greece after its people voted to reject bailout terms.
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9 Days in the Greek Debt Crisis
Greek voters' defiant rejection Sunday of the terms of an international bailout capped a dramatic week for the country in its standoff with EU and IMF creditors, who are demanding tough austerity measures in return for further rescue funds.
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General strike shuts down services across Greece
Public and many private services have shut down across Greece as unions hold a 24-hour general strike to protest further austerity cuts in the recession-plagued country.
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Greek police plan crackdown ahead of Merkel visit
Greek police have increased security and are preparing to close down large sections of the capital Athens to contain protests against Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is visiting the city on Tuesday for talks with the country's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
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Crisis-hit Greece gears up for election cliffhanger
Crisis-hit Greece heads for an electoral cliffhanger on May 6 after two years of tough austerity that have shaken the country to its core.
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Greece approves tough salary, pension cuts
Greece's Parliament late on Tuesday approved new cuts in public sector pensions and government spending required to secure a second package of international rescue loans.
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Violence hits Athens as 100,000 join anti-austerity protest march
Hundreds of rioting youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens on Wednesday after a mass anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures erupted into violence.
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Young Greek Women Selling Sex For The Price of a Sandwich, New Study Shows
Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity has pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed Friday.
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Striking Greeks Take to Tension-Filled Streets in Austerity Protest
Striking Greeks took to the streets on Thursday to protest austerity measures, setting Alexis Tsipras' government its biggest domestic challenge since he was re-elected in September promising to cushion the impact of economic hardship.
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International Monetary Fund Calls for Greece Debt Relief Ahead of Bailout Vote
An International Monetary Fund study published on Tuesday showed that Greece needs far more debt relief than European governments have been willing to contemplate so far, as fractious parties in Athens prepared to vote on a sweeping austerity package demanded by their lenders.
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Eurozone's Poorer Nations Take Hard Line on Greece
The eurozone's poorer former communist nations, having themselves endured painful market reforms and austerity programmes, are taking a hard line on Greece after its people voted to reject bailout terms.
-
9 Days in the Greek Debt Crisis
Greek voters' defiant rejection Sunday of the terms of an international bailout capped a dramatic week for the country in its standoff with EU and IMF creditors, who are demanding tough austerity measures in return for further rescue funds.
-
General strike shuts down services across Greece
Public and many private services have shut down across Greece as unions hold a 24-hour general strike to protest further austerity cuts in the recession-plagued country.
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Greek police plan crackdown ahead of Merkel visit
Greek police have increased security and are preparing to close down large sections of the capital Athens to contain protests against Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who is visiting the city on Tuesday for talks with the country's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
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Crisis-hit Greece gears up for election cliffhanger
Crisis-hit Greece heads for an electoral cliffhanger on May 6 after two years of tough austerity that have shaken the country to its core.
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Greece approves tough salary, pension cuts
Greece's Parliament late on Tuesday approved new cuts in public sector pensions and government spending required to secure a second package of international rescue loans.
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Violence hits Athens as 100,000 join anti-austerity protest march
Hundreds of rioting youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens on Wednesday after a mass anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures erupted into violence.
