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A protester with a placard addressed from the public servants' union (ADEDY) stands in front of a police formation (Reuters)

Greek bill opens way for more layoffs

Greece's Parliament approved an emergency bill Sunday to pave the way for thousands of public sector layoffs.

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A Bangladeshi worker is helped into a tent after the shooting (Reuters)

Greek farmers shoot workers

Greek officials have promised swift punishment for three strawberry plantation foremen who allegedly shot and injured 29 Bangladeshi labourers.

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The Parthenon atop the ancient hill of the Acropolis in Athens (file: Reuters)

Bomb explodes in central Athens

A bomb exploded outside a ship owner's house near the Acropolis in central Athens on Wednesday night.

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A woman is rescued from flood waters by a resident standing on top of her car during heavy rain in Chalandri suburb north of Athens (Reuters)

Greece: Fierce storm causes blackouts, road havoc

Torrential rainfall in Greece's capital Friday crippled traffic, inundated basements and streets, and was blamed for the death of woman.

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Anti-austerity protesters march through Athens' central Syntagma square during a 24-hour strike (Reuters)

Thousands join Greek strike, protest

Tens of thousands of anti-austerity demonstrators took to the streets of Athens as unemployment approaches 30 percent.

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A view shows burned-out remains of machinery in the northern Greece Skouries area (Reuters)

Greek mining company raided

About 40 masked attackers raided the facilities of a prospective gold mine in northern Greece, setting machinery and offices alight.

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Scrap dealer Abdour Rachman, 33, from Bangladesh, stands behind a shopping trolley with scrap in a weighing station in Athens (Reuters)

Crisis drives Greek scrap metal thefts

Police say they now arrest an average of four metal thieves every day, compared to a few cases every month before the crisis started in late 2009.

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Police officers secure an area near a shopping mall following an explosion near Athens (Reuters)

Bomb explodes at Athens shopping mall

The latest incident in a string of violent attacks in Athens wounded two people and forced the evacuation of 200.

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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (Reuters)

Shots fired at ruling party HQ – Greece

A gunman has fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of the governing center-right New Democracy party near central Athens.

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The lifeboat came from the Greek ship Anangel Happiness

Greek lifeboat reaches Foveaux Strait video

An empty 10m-long lifeboat from a Greek cargo ship has been retrieved off western Southland.

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Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha (C-L) and Kosovo Prime Minister hashim Thaci (C-R) start to cut a huge cake with the symbols of Albanian flag and measuring 550 metres square, in the main boulevard of Tirana, Albania (AAP)

Albania's 16-tonne anniversary cake

Albania celebrated 100 years of independence with a military parade, festive cavalcades and a 16.3-tonne cake.

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The Athens stock exchange

Greece deal not a solution - expert video

BERL chief economist Ganesh Nana talks to Firstline about Greece's next instalment of bailout money.

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(Reuters file)

Euro officials reach deal over Greece

EU nations that use the euro have struck an agreement with the IMF on a program to reduce Greek debt.

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Euro ministers meet again over Greece video

For the third time in two weeks, finance ministers from the EU are trying to strike a deal on the next instalment of bailout money for struggling Greece.

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 Municipal workers carry a coffin during a demonstration against Greece's austerity measures (AAP)

Hope of more aid for Greece video

A top European Central Bank official says he hopes eurozone countries will clear the way Monday for Greece to receive its next aid installment.

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Greeks are angry at the European Union's inability to agree on a bailout loan (Reuters file)

Eurozone tries again for Greece agreement video

European Union officials will make a fresh try to reach agree on desperately needed bailout loans for Greece - after they were unable to do so last week.

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Anti-government graffiti in Madrid, Spain (Reuters)

Eurozone falls back into recession video

The 17-country eurozone has fallen back into recession for the first time in three years with the fallout from felt from Amsterdam to Athens.

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Protesters in Pontevedra, Spain (Reuters)

Austerity protests stall European cities video

Hundreds of thousands of Europe's beleaguered citizens have gone on strike demanding that governments stop cutting benefits and jobs.

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The Greek parliament in Athens (Reuters file)

Greece raises billions ahead of repayment

Greece has raised €4.06b from the sale of short-term treasury bills, which that will help it make a crucial debt repayment at the end of the week.

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Greece's planned austerity measures are deeply unpopular among workers (Reuters file)

Can Greece buy more time? video

Greece's international creditors are proposing granting the country two more years to meet its debt reduction targets.

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