Greece
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Only short extension to bailout will do for Athens
Greece only examining the option of extending its bailout for a few weeks rather than months.
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Doctors Without Borders hits Greece on refugees
Syrians make up more than 90 percent of the 14,000 migrants who reached the southeastern Dodecanese islands this year.
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Turkish navy to conduct exercises in the Aegean during talks
Greek authorities have also noted an increase in the number of incursions into Greek air space by Turkish fighter jets.
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Cabbies working with Uber ‘should be hanged’: taxi chief
Taxi Federation chief says it should not allowing every opportunist to play with and undermine the industry’s wealth and profession
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Troika responds, wants more commitments
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will prepare a response to the Troika after the country’s lenders asked for tougher promises on fiscal and structural measures.
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Greece needs bailout extension
A senior euro zone official says Greece must ask for an extension on its bailout program before parliaments close for the year.
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Athens and Thessaloniki in list of ‘resilient cities’
The two biggest Greek cities join 35 cities around the world to enter the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative.
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Greek schools to get 1,000 additional teachers
Around 1,000 auxiliary teachers will be hired to fill gaps in primary and secondary schools.
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Samaras won’t bow to ‘unreasonable’ demands
As Athens awaits the troika’s reply, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says he will “protect the country’s dignity”.
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Greece to ask for help with refugees in Syntagma
Greece will ask Northern European countries if they are willing to grant asylum to some 200 Syrian refugees.