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Strikes and demonstrations against Greek austerity measures hit the capital Athens on Tuesday, as international debt inspectors returned to decide whether the country's reforms are strong enough for it to secure a vital bailout.
Greece's Prime Minister urged defiant union leaders Wednesday to accept further income losses, warning that vital international rescue loans could otherwise dry up and force the debt-crippled country into a disorderly default in March.
Until about 18 months ago, Dimitri had a home, a job, a regular life. He had passed homeless people on the street, rarely giving them a second thought. He never imagined he could become one of them.
It was either a reckless gamble or statesman's selfless masterstroke.
Lucas Papademos, a top former European Central Bank official, joined Greek political leaders at power-sharing talks Thursday, becoming the front-runner to lead an interim coalition government.
Greeks have launched a wave of civil disobedience against the embattled government's austerity measures designed to appease international creditors, which provided rescue loans to the country.
Greek railway workers and journalists joined ferry crews, garbage collectors, tax officials and lawyers on Tuesday in a strike blitz against yet more austerity measures required if the country is to avoid defaulting on its debts.
With no warning, a few dozen students blocked a major avenue in central Athens, marching slowly up the middle of the street to make sure motorists couldn't get through. Tempers frayed, horns honked.
Greece is likely to receive the next batch of its bailout loans in early November, international debt inspectors said Tuesday, if the eurozone and IMF approve the conclusions of the financial review they have completed.
A man wanted for possible ties to a domestic Greek terror group handed himself in Friday to Athens prosecutors and will go on trial next week, police said.
Greece's decision last week to block activists from trying to sail to Gaza with an aid shipment in defiance of Israel's sea blockade took many by surprise.
Germany has signaled it could back more help for struggling Greece, the clearest official admission yet that the international bailout and austerity plan agreed last year to restore confidence in the country is failing.
Greece's public order minister says residents of a town near Athens have pledged to suspend nearly four months of often violent protests over a planned rubbish dump, pending talks with officials.
Greece's Finance Minister said the crisis-hit country can deal with its mountain of debt and insisted that renewed access to bond markets is still possible in 2012 despite spiraling borrowing costs.
A Greek official says a private Libyan jet has crossed through Greek-monitored airspace heading from Libya to Egypt.
Amid surging demand for rare-earth minerals used in everything from cell phones to gas-saving cars, Afghans are dreaming of cashing in on vast deposits they believe lie beneath their feet.
The calls were threatening and they just wouldn't stop. The extortion demand was several hundred thousands of dollars.
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan crisscrossed the country on Saturday, making a Christmas visit to coalition troops at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the tenth year of the war against the Taliban.
European leaders disagreed over how to fight the region's crippling debt crisis as they headed into a two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday and uncertainty spooked financial markets once again.
The European Union will likely decide early next year on extending Greece's repayment period for the bailout loans that saved it from default, top EU economic official Olli Rehn said Thursday.
Debt-ridden Greece raised its projected budget deficit figure for 2010, after the European Union's statistics agency said Monday that the country's deficit and debt levels last year were much higher than previously estimated.
They huddle together, shivering violently in the freezing morning, shoes and trousers soaked. Some cradle babies or lead toddlers by the hand. Bewildered children cry.
A government official in Greece says authorities are inspecting a cargo ship suspected of carrying weapon parts from North Korea to Syria.
Greece raised euro1.17 billion ($1.5 billion) in an oversubscribed sale of 26-week treasury bills Tuesday, in the first of a regular monthly debt issue as Greece tests the market's appetite for buying Greek debt.
The plan to rescue Greece from bankruptcy has kicked in, and with a vengeance. As the government slashes spending and hikes taxes, the deficit is way down — but jobs are vanishing, shops are closing, and on the streets gloom is prevailing.
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