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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Greek deal on austerity measures still elusive

Monastiraki metro station is closed during a 24-hour strike by metro, urban railway and tram unions in Athens, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Public transport workers in the Greek capital have joined a growing wave of strikes against new austerity measures that the country's creditors are demanding in return for rescue loans. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)Greece's coalition government parties on Thursday failed again to agree on a major new austerity package that had been promised for this week and is crucial to the financial survival of the country.



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