A civil servants' strike grounded flights and shut down public services across Greece on Wednesday, as labor unions mounted their first major challenge to austerity measures in the debt-plagued country. Air traffic controllers, customs and tax officials, hospital doctors and schoolteachers walked off the job for ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - A strike by Greek civil servants grounded flights and shut many state schools and offices on Wednesday, in the first big test of the government's resolve to tackle a debt crisis which has shaken the euro zone. Investors, rating agencies and EU policymakers are closely watching the 24-hour strike and the government's response. They have said ...

VILNIUS/RIGA (Reuters) - Moody's upgraded the outlook for Lithuania's debt rating recently, but that means nothing to people like Lijandra Garniene. Sitting in a cramped one-room apartment in Vilnius, the mother of four, a former shop assistant in what was one of Europe's fastest-growing economies, remembers weeping in despair the first time she had to ask for ...