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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Greeks promised no more austerity in 2012

Protesters chant slogans in support of striking steel workers outside the Labor Ministry building in Athens, on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Several hundred people took part in the protest, organized by a Communist labor union, which came as the Greek government is seeking to end a nine-month standoff between strikers and management at a steel plant outside Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)Greeks will be spared new austerity measures this year, parties backing the coalition government promised on Wednesday, though they refused to rule out more painful cuts starting in 2013.



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