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Investors offer about $38.8 billion euros in Greek debt buyback: source

ATHENS - Greece is set to purchase back about half of its debt owned by private investors, broadly succeeding in a bond buyback that is key to the country's international bailout, a Greek government official said on Saturday.
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Anti-fascist group claims Greek far-right party bombing

ATHENS - A little-known anti-fascist group said on Saturday it was behind a bomb attack on an office of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party this week that ripped through a wall and smashed windows but caused no injuries.

Fatal North Sea collision said to be human error

AMSTERDAM - Human error was probably to blame for a collision that killed five crew and sank the Baltic Ace car carrier, its Greek manager said on Thursday, and Dutch rescuers said it was unlikely six missing seamen would be found alive.

Insight: Tortured, detained and ordered out: a migrant's tale in Greece

SALAMINA, Greece - Egyptian immigrant Waleed Taleb says demanding his unpaid wages in Greece came at a heavy price; 18 hours chained and beaten by his boss, a stint in jail and orders to leave the country he calls home.

Dutch trawl North Sea for survivors after ship sinks

AMSTERDAM - Human error was probably to blame for a collision that killed five crew and sank the Baltic Ace car carrier, its Greek manager said on Thursday, as the Dutch rescuers searched icy North Sea waters for survivors.

Record Greek jobless rate highest in euro zone in September

ATHENS - Unemployment in Greece climbed to a new record of 26 percent in September, topping that of Spain to become the highest in the euro area, data by Greece's statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

Greece takes bottom EU spot in global corruption index

BERLIN - Greece has scored the worst ranking of all 27 European Union nations in a global league table of perceived official corruption, falling below ex-communist Bulgaria as public anger about graft soars during the country's crisis.

Fiscal cliff pressures stocks; euro near seven-week high

NEW YORK - Stocks slipped on Tuesday as investors fretted about Washington's ability to avoid a year-end budget crisis, but a Greek plan to buy back debt pushed the euro near a seven-week high.

ECB to hold rates, guidance for 2013 eyed

FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank may give a guide to next year's policy path when it delivers fresh forecasts for the euro zone economy on Thursday at a meeting where it is expected to leave interest rates at a record low.

Greek-style deal for Portugal not on the table: PM

LISBON - Portugal does not need a large scale debt-reduction deal like Greece's because its efforts to return to the markets are on track and its situation is fundamentally different, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Tuesday.