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Shocking images of drowned Syrian boy show tragic plight of refugees
Young boy found lying face-down on a beach near Turkish resort of Bodrum was one of at least 12 Syrians who drowned attempting to reach Greece.
Greek election confusion raises fresh fears over ability to pay debts
Confusion over the timing of fresh elections in Greece has threatened to jeopardise the prospects for a smooth transition to a new government.
Tsipras the Phaeton alarms China
Economic decisions by Athens’s leader may push Greeks to vote for the neo-fascist Golden Dawn.
Athens tears up austerity handbook
The new leaders want to ease the ‘humanitarian crisis’ – but Greece’s creditors are not impressed.
Visionary vs Greece’s Mr Austerity
The tainted old order under Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is up against unencumbered young firebrand Alexis Tsipras.
Greeks take risky election gamble
Failure to elect a new president will pit the ruling Samaras coalition against the popular radical left Syriza party.
Greece to sell off historic buildings to settle debt
Greece has been selling off its historic properties, including near the Acropolis, to settle its massive economic debt.
Dusk settles briskly on Greece’s Golden Dawn
Members had been trained in Nazi-style hit squads to "attack immigrants for fun".
Greece lightning strikes again
After years of harsh recession, 17-million tourists — an all-time record — are set to visit the mainland and its sun-kissed islands.
Greek neo-Nazi party goes global
An extremist political group, Golden Dawn, plans to establish cells ‘wherever there are Greeks’.
Cypriots wary of what’s to come
Cypriots have reacted to the news of their own salvation from economic meltdown with relief, but also trepidation and despair.
Canny Greeks resort to retail therapy of another kind
In the heart of Greece’s most fertile plain, locals have come up with a novel way of dealing with austerity.
Greeks make big stink of austerity effect
The Greek economy is on the verge of a 1930s-style Great Depression, as the Athens government predicts a 25% fall in gross domestic product by 2014.
Hollywood stars give Greek tourist industry A-list endorsement
Brad Pitt and Angela Jolie are among the stars returning to Greece as its stricken economy gets a boost from a surge in bookings.
Enraged Greeks round on unsympathetic Lagarde
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde’s description of Greeks as rampant tax dodgers has provoked a furious reaction in Athens