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By Aris Messinis, AFP/Getty Images Protesters clash with police inAthens on Wednesday before the Greek parliament votes on an austerity plan. By Aris Messinis, AFP/Getty Images Protesters clash with police inAthens on Wednesday before the Greek ...
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Greece: Default, interrupted? Why some still fear a debacle
CTV.ca
The scenes from Athens today have an air of the unreal about them. Inside Greece'sParliament, politicians broke into applause after they approved harsh new austerity measures. Outside, demonstrators clashed with police, as they have done time and ...
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Cutting some slack for Greece
Irish Times
GREECE YESTERDAY looked into the abyss and stepped back. And it must do so again today. The Athens parliament's relatively comfortable majority of 155 votes to 138 approving the government/EU/IMF €28 billion austerity plan and €50 billion privatisation ...
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Surge in markets as Greece says 'yes' to e28bn plan
Irish Independent
Today will see the parliament vote again -- this time on specific measures for the austerity plan that has caused rioting in Athens. Markets around the world surged as the plan was approved yesterday, but many commentators still believe Greece has ...
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Stocks Score Another Advance
Briefing.com
COM] Stocks scored their third straight advance today. The broad market is now up roughly 3% for the week. An improved tone of trade this week has helped stocks win support in the face of ongoing protests in the streets of Athens, Greece. ...
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During Dire Times in Greece, a Beacon for a Brighter Future is Unveiled
PR Newswire (press release)
ATHENS, Greece, June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Months in the planning, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Renzo Piano Building Workshop unveiled today the final designs for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) – a world-class ...
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US Airways and Aegean Airlines Announce New Codeshare
MarketWatch (press release)
US Airways customers will have access to Athens, the political and cultural capital ofGreece, as well as Thessolaniki, Greece, via Aegean Airlines service from London Heathrow, Munich, Germany and Rome. Customers will also have the chance to visit the...
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Inside Greece's General Strike: Video Report From Athens As Thousands Protest ...
Democracy Now
We're going to go back as protesters refuse to leave, still trying to hold the center of their protest, the heart of their protest, where they've been for over a month and now today, as the general strike gets underway, police have tried to disperse ...
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Oil mixed in Asian trade after Greek cuts
Business Standard
PTI / Singapore June 30, 2011, 8:54 IST Oil was mixed in Asian trade today following a sharp surge overnight after Greece's parliament passed severe austerity cuts. The vote in Athens allayed concerns that Greece would default on its massive debt, ...
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Hungary Bonds Gain 3rd Day Before Auction as Greece Passes Bill
San Francisco Chronicle
Implementation of the plan may be complicated by escalating riots in Athens. Hungary's public debt is equivalent to 77 percent of the economy, the highest ratio among the European Union's eastern members, while record-high foreign holdings of state ...
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Crisis Isn't Over in Greece
Fox Business
Slower growth and deflation will cause private debtors to default in greater numbers on home, car and credit card loans — those will create new woes and spending by Athens. Bottom like: even if other elements of the austerity fall into place, ...
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Tough Austerity Measure Passes in Greece
PBS Nightly Business Report
SUSIE GHARIB, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: A new phase in the European debt crisis, Greek lawmakers passed tough austerity measures today. This opens the way for Greece to receive another round of bailout loans from its European neighbors. ...
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ESS expansion continues with a new office in Athens, Greece
LogisticsWeek
Electronic Shipping Solutions (ESS), the leading shipping and trade eDocs provider, announced today that it has expanded its presence in Europe with the opening of a new office in Athens, Greece. The opening of the Athens office enhances ESS’s ...
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Top 10 places to celebrate gay rights
Toronto Sun
Athens, Greece: Some of the first-recorded mentions of same-sex relationships, unions and marriages trace back to ancient Greece. Socially accepted relationships between older men of status and teenage boys were prevalent throughout society in Athens, ...
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Democracy's Cradle, Rocking the World
New York Times
But this is hardly the first time that to understand Europe's future, you need to turn away from the big powers at the center of the continent and look closely at what is happening in Athens. For the past 200 years, Greece has been at the forefront of ...
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Bourse rebounds on hopes for Greece
The Australian
A protester with a Greek flag rallies in central Athens against EU-imposed austerity measures over the debt crisis. Picture: AP Source: AP THE Australian sharemarket had its biggest one-day rise in a week yesterday after tracking Wall Street to a ...
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Bloody battle on the streets of Greece ... People smugglers exposed ... AFL ...
ABC Online (blog)
Greece will face tax rises, salary cuts and job losses. To get the very latest news from the streets of Greece, Jon Faine spoke to journalist and documentary maker Stelios Kouloglou based in Athens. The front page of today's Australian newspaper ...
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THE DISTILLERY: RBA soother
Business Spectator
Still, the crisis meant a nice few days in Athens for the media, even if there was a whiff of gas around the retsina and calamari. Our jotters could only sit and sigh at the deep blue skies and riots. What the Greek 'yes' has done is given a fillip to ...
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Cheering Greece with a steel cup of soup
MarketWatch
Investors liked that. It showed leadership and bodes well for a company that's long been floundering. And that works hand-in-hand with the parliamentary decision handed downtoday in Athens. Finally, Greece has a plan of action. ...
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Treasuries Extend Drop as Greece Austerity Passage Saps Auction
San Francisco Chronicle
At today's auction, indirect bidders, an investor class that includes foreign central banks, purchased 32.2 percent of the notes, compared with 47.6 percent at the May 26 offering and an average of 50.1 percent for the past 10 sales. ...
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Karzai defiant in the face of hotel attack...More austerity for Greece
9&10 News
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — One opposition deputy says she will break with her party and vote for a crucial, $40 billion austerity program Greece needs to stave off default. The Parliament is on track to approve the measure today, clearing the way for ...
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June 29: It's All About Greece
Zacks.com
With the domestic economic calendar on the thin side, stocks will likely reflect growing optimism on the Greece story. The Greek parliament is expected to pass the tougher austerity measures today that are a precondition for a new EU/IMF rescue fund. ...
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Obama, Dems to meet on debt question...Greece poised for more big spending cuts
9&10 News
Obama also plans a news conference today and will likely address the negotiations.ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Parliament is poised today to approve an additional $40 billion austerity program to gain access to a second installment of European ...
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GREECE IS SPARED... FOR NOW
CITY A.M.
If deputies pass today's round of bills, Greece will qualify to receive a fifth tranche of the €110bn bailout it was promised last year. But its debt-to-GDP ratio is still on course to hit 160 per cent and the EU is scrambling to find another €100bn ...
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Gold Advances For a Second Day in London on Greece Woes, Dollar
San Francisco Chronicle
The dollar fell versus the euro on speculation Greece's debt crisis won't prevent the European Central Bank from raising interest rates next week. Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Athens as labor unions shut down government services ...
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Morning MarketBeat: Greece Votes, Dow Looks to Extend Win Streak
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The vote takes place as Greece is roiled by a nationwide strike and flickering civil unrest. Also, German banks on Tuesday joined French banks in agreeing to rollover portions of Greek debt in a bid to ease pressure on Athens. ...
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Greece hopes Chinese investment will bail the country
Moneycontrol.com
The Greek parliament is scheduled to vote on the austerity packagetoday. Last year, China's state-owned shipping company Cosco took control of most of the Athens port, Greece's largest container facility. Union leader Sotiris Poulikoyiannis told the ...
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FTSE rises as debate on Greece's future begins
Citywire.co.uk
Meanwhile Michael Hewson at CMC Markets was negative even if the whole package is passed: 'The problems will not end with the “yes” vote the markets expect to get latertoday. One only has to look at the scenes outside the parliament building in Athens ...
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Commodities: Oil up on hopes for Greece
ShareCast
The prospect that politicians in Athens could vote "no" had been suppressing the market for several days, with investors keenly aware that were Greece to default on its debts, it would cause a period of intense instability within the European economy. ...
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EU bailout of Greece – “robbery and swindle” — RT
By RT
Anti-government protests in debt-stricken Greece have turned violent. Demonstrators clashed with police forces after tear gas was used to disperse protesters. People in central Athens are protesting against new austerity measures to aid ...
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Athens, June 29/11 - Keep Talking Greece
By keeptalkinggreece
What is going on in Athens right now, is indescribable. Pictures that have nothing to do with a democratic country, the country where democracy was supposedly born. Thentoday, I fully doubt it. What have modern Greeks with the Antique ...
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Rioters Turn Athens Greece Into A War Zone, Banks And Finance ...
By Alex
Just moments after Greek politicians sold out the 80% majority opposed to the banker bailout and passed draconian austerity measures, rioters in Athens responded by turningGreece into a war zone, setting banks, cars, ... As Tyler Durden reports, things are heating up in Greece, literally. Earlier today a firebomb at a Marfin branch killed three people! Then, almost immediately after the politicians were blackmailed into passing the banker bailout, the Finance Ministry ...
 
Greek Parliament votes YES, whilst crowds riot outside
By Ethel Smith
June 29, 2011, Athens, Greece. Today the Greek Parliament has voted on the strict austerity measures needed for its EU financial bail-out. The morning started with riots on the streets. The heavy police presence responded with tear gas ...
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Protesters aim to block Greece vote - timesofmalta.com
By PA
Protesters aim to block Greece vote. A fire bomb thrown by protesters explodes next to riot police during a demonstration in Athens. More than 5000 police will be on the streets of Athens today to tackle ongoing protests against ...
timesofmalta.com
ESS expansion continues with a new office in Athens, Greece ...
By NewsDesk
Electronic Shipping Solutions (ESS), the leading shipping and trade eDocs provider, announced today that it has expanded its presence in Europe with the opening of a new office in Athens, Greece. The opening of the Athens office ...
LogisticsWeek
Violence In Greece Escalates After Approval of Austerity Plan ...
ATHENS (MNI) - Violence in the streets of Athens and elsewhere in Greece escalated Wednesday afternoon after Parliament passed a highly unpopular. ... since the votetoday. In Athens' central Syntagma Square, rioters have set fire to garbage cans and are throwing rocks and bottles at police, who have responded with tear gas so thick that people in the area are having trouble breathing. So far, sixteen people have been hospitalized and 28 arrested. All ...
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GREECE TODAY: 'Athens police worse than anything we've seen before'
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Maggot4Life.com - Sonisphere Athens Greece Today
Sonisphere Athens Greece Today..6/16/2011. Posted By: Alex. Sonisphere 2011Greece is finally here and we're going to get to see Slipknot tear the stage up ...
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Greece begins 48-hour general strike | World news | guardian.co.uk
A two-day general strike begins in Greece today to oppose cuts demanded by international lenders in return for more financial aid. Video Athens austerity ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/.../greece-begins-48-hour-strike
News Wrap: Greece Endorses New Austerity Measures Amid More Rioting
HARI SREENIVASAN: Lawmakers in Greece endorsed new austerity measures todayin the face of chaos in the streets of Athens. The $40 billion package of ...
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan.../othernews_06-29.html
Athens, June 29/11 - Keep Talking Greece
Athens, June 29/11: Glorification of the Greek Democracy. Posted bykeeptalkinggreece in Editor. I am so damned proud today! Greece showed that it is a...
www.keeptalkinggreece.com/.../athens-june-2911-glorification...
EU bailout of Greece – “robbery and swindle” — RT
On the streets of Athens the voices of discontent are growing louder. ...with riot police during a 48-hour general strike in Athens Today: 14 ...
rt.com/news/greece-austerity-rally-athens/
GLOBAL NEWS TODAY -: Morning Digest: Europe delays decision on ...
skip to main | skip to sidebar. GLOBAL NEWS TODAY - ... Europe delays decision onGreece, presses Athens to act. LUXEMBOURG/ATHENS (Reuters) - Euro zone ...
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Athens prepares for tense vote on austerity measures | The Irish Times
ARTHUR BEESLEY in Brussels and DAMIAN Mac CON ULADH in Athens. More violence is anticipated in Greece today as the country's parliament holds a crucial vote...
m.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/.../breaking4.html...
Europeans Doubt Greece's Ability to Stick to Budget
In agency news, Greece today related news, Athens today agency news, Greeces TV business news, Greeks nowadays business news, Economics recently release ...
www.ourbusinessnews.com/europeans-doubt-greece’s-ability-t...
Maria Shriver hits Greece for Special Olympics
By Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY Maria Shriver has managed to stay mostly out of ...However, she's trekked to Athens, Greece this weekend for a cause that is ...
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Athens, Greece - In Photos: Violent Protest Intensifies ...
Athens, Greece - Stun grenades echoed across the square today in Athens outside the Parliament building and acrid clouds of tear gas hung in the streets. ...
www.vosizneias.com/.../athens-greece-in-photos-greece-violen...
Riots hit Athens again as Greek MPs vote on £24billion austerity ...
PROTESTERS clashed with riot police in Athens for the second day running today as... Greece riots. Flashpoint: riot police battle crowds in Athens today ...
www.thisislondon.co.uk/.../article-23965614-riots-hit-athens-a...
Greece: violent clashes outside parliament continue into the night ...
CNN · Google News Business (Today) - Reuters AfricaGreece austerity: Cure or poison?CNNProtests have gotten violent in Athens, as the Greek Parliament. ...
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46 hurt in clashes on eve of Greek vote - USATODAY.com - USA Today
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hours of rioting outside Greece's parliament left 46 people injured Tuesday, on the eve of a vote by lawmakers to adopt more painful ...
www.usatoday.com/.../2011-06-28-greece-strike-financial-cris...
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