Greece
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Hospital staff to walk off job
Hospitals around the country will be working on a skeleton staff.
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Syriza calls for committee on German reparations
Syriza has tabled a motion calling for the establishment of an interparty parliamentary committee to pursue Second World War reparations from Germany.
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Venizelos rejects blame for name list
Socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos sought to absolve himself of responsibility for the failure of authorities to probe a list of some 2,000 Greek tax evasion suspects.
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Troika steps up demands
Greece is still hopeful it can conclude by the end of the week an agreement on the 13.5-billion-euro austerity package.
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Prosecutor obtains list of major depositors
A list containing the names of about 2,000 Greeks who had deposits totaling some 1.5 billion euros.
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For Greece, a tear
A closer look into the book that explores the political life of Andreas Papandreou.
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Angry scenes at disability protest
Angry scenes at a protest called by disability groups against spending cuts.
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Record jobless rate for youth
The rate of unemployment among young people in Greece is now the highest in the European Union.
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Parliament speaker to MP: “Suck mine, it’s better!”
Tensions mounted in Parliament on Thursday as an investigation into corruption in public life gathered pace.
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Give Greece more time, says Germany’s Steinbrueck
Greece should be given more time to reform its economy and must not be thrown out of the eurozone.