An agreement on a Greek national unity government to be headed by the parliament's speaker has fallen apart apart at the 11th hour, deepening the country’s political turmoil just weeks before the country is expected to run out of cash.
The outgoing centre-left prime minister, George Papandreou, had delivered a televised farewell address and he and the leader of the conservative New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, had begun a meeting with the president, Karolos Papoulias, where Papandr...
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