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Air pollution surges in Athens as residents choose cheaper wood-burning heat
Air pollution in Athens has surged in recent days because of people choosing wood over more expensive fuels to heat their homes in the grips of a continuing economic crisis, the environment ministry said Friday. Particulate matter has been measured at 150 milligrammes per cubic metre, or three times the…
Official: 65-year-old man dies during Athens protest
ATHENS: A 65-year-old man died from heart failure during a demonstration in Athens Thursday where riot police fired tear gas to repel firebomb-throwing protesters, a health ministry official said. “A 65-year-old man was taken to hospital where efforts to revive him failed,” the official told AFP, adding: “There were no…
Protests erupt in Athens as the Greece finalizes cuts
Anti-austerity protests Wednesday clogged Athens as the government struggled to finalise additional cutbacks with its creditors and sought to jumpstart a privatisation drive delayed for months. Some 2,000 teachers, hospital doctors and municipal staff demonstrated against a new round of state salary cuts and job losses expected by October, with…
Greek authorities conducting mass arrests of undocumented immigrants
Greek authorities have begun one of the country’s biggest crackdowns yet on suspected illegal immigrants, deploying 4,500 police around Athens and detaining more than 7,000 immigrants in less than 72 hours. Most have been released, but about 2,000, mostly Africans and Asians, were arrested. They were sent to holding centres…
Greek vote poses new challenge for IMF rescue
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund’s already fragile rescue for Greece has taken a serious battering, after Greek voters rejected the government that accepted the Fund’s harsh austerity program in exchange for bailout funding. The weekend vote that sent a centrist government packing also sent a message to the IMF…
Greek voters reject austerity, turn to radical parties of left and right
Governing parties backing EU-mandated austerity in Greece are on course for a major drubbing as hard-hit voters, venting their fury in elections, defected in droves, according to exit polls. In a major upset that will not be welcomed by the crisis-plagued country’s eurozone partners, the two forces that had agreed…
Unions call protest as Greece works on bailout laws
Greece braced for fresh protests on Wednesday as officials began setting up necessary legislation tied to a unprecedented eurozone bailout and debt swap needed to secure the deal. European stock markets fell and the euro weakened as questions over the agreed rescue still lingered with a senior EU official suggesting…
Eurozone opts to keep Greece under umbrella
Europe opted on Tuesday to keep Greece in the eurozone, agreeing a huge financial lifeline worth 237 billion euros but demandingAthens meet a long list of conditions first. The decision, reached after a marathon 13 hours of negotiations with private creditors and the International Monetary Fund, should avert a messy bankruptcy, but leaves…
New faces of poor among Athens homeless
ATHENS — It is hard to miss the colourful house with its walls covered with graffiti in Metaxourgeio, a working-class Athens district. Here, immigrants push supermarket carts full of metal scraps, while in garages only old cars are being repaired. In this little red house, alongside the railway line, the…
Greek riots escalate as parliament passes austerity plan
The Greek parliament in the early hours of Monday voted its approval of a harsh new austerity plan in exchange for new loans from foreign lenders. The vote was not even close, with 199 members of parliament voting in favor, 74 against, and 27 abstaining. The two major parties in…
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