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People stand in a line to use the ATMs of a bank in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Saturday after the country's prime minister announced a snap referendum on an international bailout â pushing Athens toward a Tuesday deadline for a plan t

Greece Slouches Toward Default As Germany Rules Out Further Debt Talks

3:54pm June 27, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Germany says that there will be no more negotiations after the Greek premier called for a nationwide referendum on a bailout plan. Meanwhile, fearful Greeks are withdrawing their euros.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker before an EU summit in Brussels on Monday. He's hoping a new Greek proposal will end the deadlock on a bailout for Greece's economy.

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Greek Proposals Raise Hope Of Deal On Bailout

5:52pm June 22, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

A Greek proposal could pave the way for another installment of a multibillion-dollar bailout. The move could stave off a Greek default on its debt and prevent the country from exiting the eurozone.

Regilla Bastian (center), pictured with her Greek mother, Calliope Spanou, and German father, Jens Bastian, considers herself European but worries about Greece's future, and her own, in the continent.

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As G-7 Begins, Greek Bailout Tops Agenda — And Isolation Fears Grip Greece

10:28am June 08, 2015

by Joanna Kakissis

The leftist party that swept Greek elections earlier this year promised to save Greece from the clutches of austerity. But Greece and the European Union remained deadlocked over a new credit deal.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (center) gestures next to Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis (left) and Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Minister Nikos Voutsis. Voutsis says Greece may miss its next debt payment.

Greece Warns That It Will Probably Miss Next Month's Debt Payment

10:17am May 24, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis says a $1.76 billion payment due next month "will not be given and is not there to be given."

The headless, reclining sculpture of the river god Ilissos is on display at the State Hermitage Museum as part of its 250th anniversary celebration in St. Petersburg in December. The sculpture, taken from the Parthenon in Athens 200 years ago, was on loan

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Greece Says It Won't Take U.K. To Court For Return Of Elgin Marbles

12:42pm May 15, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Athens says taking the matter to the International Criminal Court would take too long and the outcome would be uncertain. Instead he says Greece will use diplomatic channels for their return.

Greek Orthodox priest Apostolos Stavropoulos, 41, lights a torch inside the mausoleum in the village of Distomo in June 2013 on the eve of the 69th anniversary of the massacre committed by the Nazis during World War II. The remains of the more than 200 vi

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As Greeks And Germans Negotiate Debt, Reparations Issues Resurface

11:14am April 18, 2015

by Joanna Kakissis

Greece says Germany owes it billions of dollars for its World War II occupation by the Nazis. The German government says it has already paid, but some Germans feel more should be done.

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Greece Puts A Number On Nazi-Era Reparations From Germany

1:04pm April 07, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas told a parliamentary panel the figure was about $305.17 billion. It's the first time Greece has set a figure for the German occupation in the 1940s.

A worker at Soulis Furs in Kastoria sorts through treated mink pelts. "We buy the pelts â minks or foxes or other animals â from North America and Scandinavia and send them for treatment in factories or abroad," says Makis Gioras of Soulis Furs

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A Greek City Nervously Watches Its Fur Trade Falter

10:34am March 10, 2015

by Joanna Kakissis

Kastoria survived Greece's economic crisis primarily because of high Russian demand for the fur coats it produces. Then the Russian economy tanked. Now Kastoria is in trouble.

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Eurozone Approves Greek Overhaul Plan

11:47am February 24, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The Greek plan would keep Athens' budget under control while spending more on social programs. European ministers agreed to extend financial assistance by four months, but the IMF was more skeptical.

A man passes a graffiti in central Athens Friday, as Eurozone finance ministers consider Greece's request to extend the bailout loans that have kept its government afloat.

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Greece Reaches Deal With EU To Extend Loan Terms

3:14pm February 20, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Athens gets an extension of four months on the terms of the EU bailout, ending for the short-term the danger that it will default and be forced out of the Eurozone.