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Socialists win in Greece; 'hard work' ahead, Papandreou says

Greece's opposition Socialist party on Sunday defeated the incumbent center-right government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, as Socialist leader George Papandreou promised to chart a new course for an economic comeback.

Greek prime minister calls elections 2 years early

Greek voters will go to the polls to elect a new government two years early, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced Thursday.

Greek firefighters continue to battle widespread blazes

Greek firefighters planned to continue to work through the night to contain dozens of wildfires, including a massive blaze outside Athens, authorities said.

Greek firefighters get respite, brace for strong winds

The capital of Greece appeared safe from wildfires that have raged for days, firefighters said Monday, but they remained on standby in anticipation of flare-ups caused by strong winds.

High winds drive on Greek wildfires

Firefighters spent a third day battling a spate of blazes on the suburbs around the Greek capital Sunday amid gale-force winds that whipped on the fires.

Greek PM condemns attack on TV station

Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis Wednesday condemned as "reprehensible" an attack on a private television station.

Greek PM reshuffles Cabinet to maintain control

Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis carried out a sweeping reshuffle of his Cabinet Wednesday as his party struggles to retain its razor-thin control of parliament amid a string of scandals and the worst civil unrest the country has seen in decades.

Masked gunmen attack riot police in Athens

Gunmen fired automatic weapons at Greek riot police in Athens Monday, seriously injuring a policeman in an attack police said looked like the work of one of the country's leading Marxist militant groups.

Greece in belt-tightening budget despite protests

Greece passed a belt-tightening budget Monday, despite weeks of nationwide protests over the economy and jobs enflamed by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police earlier this month.

Explainer: Why is there unrest in Greece?

Youths have rioted on the streets of Athens and other Greek cities for the past three days. Stores and cars have been torched, barricades erected and rioters have fought running battles with police.

Socialists win in Greece; 'hard work' ahead, Papandreou says

Greek prime minister calls elections 2 years early

Greek voters will go to the polls to elect a new government two years early, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced Thursday.

Greek firefighters continue to battle widespread blazes

Greek firefighters planned to continue to work through the night to contain dozens of wildfires, including a massive blaze outside Athens, authorities said.

Greek firefighters get respite, brace for strong winds

The capital of Greece appeared safe from wildfires that have raged for days, firefighters said Monday, but they remained on standby in anticipation of flare-ups caused by strong winds.

High winds drive on Greek wildfires

Firefighters spent a third day battling a spate of blazes on the suburbs around the Greek capital Sunday amid gale-force winds that whipped on the fires.

Greek PM condemns attack on TV station

Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis Wednesday condemned as "reprehensible" an attack on a private television station.

Greek PM reshuffles Cabinet to maintain control

Masked gunmen attack riot police in Athens

Greece in belt-tightening budget despite protests

Greece passed a belt-tightening budget Monday, despite weeks of nationwide protests over the economy and jobs enflamed by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police earlier this month.

Explainer: Why is there unrest in Greece?

Youths have rioted on the streets of Athens and other Greek cities for the past three days. Stores and cars have been torched, barricades erected and rioters have fought running battles with police.

Clashes, strike shut down Athens

The Greek government was struggling to bring violent protests under control Wednesday, five days after they were sparked by the police killing of a teenager.

Violence flares at Greek teen's funeral

Protesters clashed with riot police and 10,000 people marched on parliament in Greece as a 15-year-old boy killed by police was buried Tuesday.

Time.com: Greek Minister Resigns Over Land Swap Scandal

A Greek minister resigned Thursday after being accused of involvement in a burgeoning scandal involving a state land swap with a powerful Orthodox monastery that has undermined the government's popularity

Major strikes paralyze Greece

Routine activity ground to a halt on Wednesday as protesters from all walks of life staged a general strike over proposed changes to Greece's pension program.

Greek PM to Turkey for historic talks

Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis makes an historic trip to Turkey on Wednesday, the first official visit by a high-level Greek official in nearly 50 years, in a bid to "advance the normalization of relations," a Greek official said.

Time.com: Greek PM Faces New Challenges

"Compassionate conservative" Kostas Karamanlis narrowly won reelection, but his shrunken majority could leave his party vulnerable

Time.com: Uncertainty Ahead Of Greek Elections

Political fires are still burning brightly ahead of this weekend's elections

Greece faces flood threat

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A massive cleanup, reconstruction and anti-flood effort was being launched Monday for fire-stricken parts of southern Greece as one fire front continued to burn while others abated, officials said.

EU promises aid to fire-hit Greece

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso toured fire-damaged southern Greece by helicopter Saturday and promised aid for areas where 64 people died and an estimated 469,000 acres of mostly forest and farmland were destroyed.

Greece: One major fire remains

After a week of battling raging wildfires that cut off villages, killed 64 people and burned nearly 500,000 acres of land, Greek fire department officials said Thursday that just one major blaze remained to bring under control.

Greek fire victims queue for cash

Hundreds of Greek fire victims crowded into banks to receive up to $17,732 in aid promised by the government, which has been accused of mishandling the disaster.

Greek agents probe 'arson plot'

With wildfires raging across the countryside, Greece's government says it has enlisted intelligence and counterterrorism agents to foil what it sees as a deliberate plan by arsonists to destroy Greek forests.

Time.com: A Political Fire Also Burns in Greece

The Prime Minister's suggestion of sabotage has roiled a country already reeling from the destructive wildfires

Death toll rises from Greek fires

Firefighters rushed helicopters and buses Monday to evacuate more than two dozen villages threatened by towering walls of flames that had killed 63 people while ravaging swaths of forest and farmland in Greece's worst wildfire disaster in memory.

Two charged over Greek wildfires

Greek officials have arrested and charged two individuals in connection with the fires that have scorched southern Greece, razing dozens of villages and killing at least 51 people, Fire Brigade Officer Nikos Tsogas said Sunday.

Official: Greek fires inch closer to Olympic cradle

The wildfires that have scorched southern Greece, killing dozens of people, reached the ancient city of Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic games, an official said Sunday.

Greek leader suggests political extremists set fires

Fires in southern Greece that have razed dozens of villages and killed at least 44 people may have been deliberately set ahead of next month's national elections, the prime minister suggested Saturday.

Greece renews fight for lost marbles

Emboldened by the return of two ancient artifacts claimed to have been spirited from Greek soil a decade ago, Greece's Prime Minister has lashed out at the British Museum, saying its grounds for refusing to relinquish possession of Greece's most famous antiquities, the Parthenon Marbles, were "feeble."

Olympian task for new Greek leader

Greece's next prime minister has pledged to make this summer's Olympic Games in Athens "the best and safest ever held."

Greek poll: Cliffhanger predicted

Greeks have been voting in crucial parliamentary elections predicted to be a cliffhanger between the long-governing Socialists and the conservatives.

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