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Greece and its international lenders will miss a self-imposed March 10 deadline to clinch a deal that will release the next tranche of the country's rescue loans, three senior Greek government sources said late on Friday.

Io - German President Joachim Gauck on Friday solemnly asked Greece to forgive Germany for a heinous Nazi crime committed at the height of World War II, while carefully dismissing calls for reparations.Gauck visited the scene of the tragedy in the hills of ...

Athens - Greece wants more time to shore up its crisis-hit banks, a government source said Thursday, as the authorities were locked in a dispute with EU-IMF creditors on how much it would cost to do so."We are asking for more time for the banks," a finance mini...

Greece has asked its international lenders to approve its latest bailout review despite an unresolved dispute over how much new capital its banks need, a senior finance ministry official said on Wed...

Athens - Greece will release stress test results on its top banks this week without securing the agreement of the IMF, a source close to the talks said on Tuesday, in a further sign of disagreements between Athens and its international creditors.The stress test...

A health check of major Greek banks is likely to reveal a capital shortfall of about 5 billion euros after Greece's international lenders accepted a lower capital adequacy r...

Berlin - Germany on Wednesday rejected a fresh Nazi-era reparation claim by a Greek city's Jewish community but offered the group cooperation on future projects."With regard to issues of reparations, there are no new developments and all these questions are ans...

Athens - Hundreds of Greek dock workers staged a protest in Athens Wednesday against plans to sell most of the state's stake in the Piraeus port authority (OLP), which runs Greece's main harbour.The government plans to divest 67 percent of OLP, from its current...

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Athens - EU-IMF creditors began a new audit of Greek finances on Monday, with Athens hoping for a deal in two weeks to help it meet debt repayments, a finance ministry source said."The talks begin today," the source told AFP."We want this to be over by March 10...