Friday, January 27, 2012

Greece in race against time to avoid default

A security guard opens the shutters of Syntagma metro station during a 24-hour strike in Athens, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. International debt inspectors visit Athens to review the course of Greece's austerity reforms. Unions call for strikes and work stoppages in some sectors in the Greek capital. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greece resumed talks with its international debt inspectors Tuesday, facing a race against the clock to avoid becoming the first country that uses the euro to default on its debts and potentially trigger a chain reaction that could ultimately destroy the European single currency itself.


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