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ATHENS – After weeks of anguish, Greeks found out that international lenders providing the country with a series of bailout loans will release a delayed $11 billion installment needed to keep paying workers and pensioners, but it curiously did...

A letter sent to European Union officials by New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras pledging his[...]

The new coalition government led by interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is not getting a reprieve from Greek workers, who will take to the streets on Dec. 1 to keep up their protest against austerity [...]

ATHENS – Greece’s interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who is overseeing a shaky coalition of three parties, is trying to persuade international lenders to release a delayed $11 billion loan installment, without which the country will not be able...

Reversing itself after insisting that leaders of Greece’s new coalition government would have to sign[...]

ATHENS - Interim Prime Minster Lucas Papademos, as expected, easily won a vote of confidence from the Parliament his fractious coalition government controls for the next few months. Papademos, who oversees a shaky deal between the PASOK Socialists and...

On Friday night, Nov. 16, 1973, police started facing off against protesters inside and outside the Athens[...]

ATHENS – Even before the dust settled down from the appointment of a new interim Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, and a coalition cabinet charged with pushing through the Parliament a new bailout of $157 billion from international lenders and...

ATHENS - As growing numbers of public workers join the ranks of strikers protesting pay cuts,  tax hikes, and the layoff of 30,000 workers Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos blistered them for their actions and said the city was under...

PASOK Slips, But No Winners Seen ATHENS - Eighteen months after imposing pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on the working populace in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy, the ruling PASOK Socialist party has fallen further behind the...