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Thursday 18 July 2013

Greek public service workers say 'no more sacrifices'

Tens of thousands of Greek public service workers staged a 24 hour general strike against austerity on Tuesday. But the Greek parliament scraped through a vote on Wednesday for on mass sackings of public sector workers as a condition of securing bail out funds from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.