By DEMETRIS NELLAS

Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece – A disorderly and potentially devastating Greek debt default is looking much less likely.

Greece and investors who own its bonds have reached a tentative deal to significantly reduce the country’s debt and pave the way for it to receive a much-needed €130 billion bailout.

Negotiators for the investors announced the agreement January 28 and said it could become final this week. If the agreement works as planned, it...

By ThE ASSocIATED PRESS

ATHENS, Greece – A look at key dates in Greece’s financial crisis.

October 4, 2009 – George Papandreou’s Socialists win landslide general election victory, ending five and a half years of conservative rule. He is sworn in as prime minister two days later.

October 18, 2009 – Government reveals that the budget deficit is set to rise to at least 12 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, double the previous government’s estimate.

The...

By MATThEW BARAKAT

The Associated Press

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An ex-CIA officer who helped track down and capture a top al-Qaida figure was charged February 23 with disclosing to reporters classified secrets, including the covert identities of his associates on the mission, in the latest of a series of prosecutions by the Obama administration against suspected leakers.

John Kiriakou, 47, of Arlington, is charged with violating the IntelligenceIdentities Protection Act...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Theo Angelopoulos, an award-winning Greek filmmaker known for his slow and dreamlike style as a director, was killed in a road accident January 24 while working on his latest movie. He was 76.

Police and hospital officials said Angelopoulos suffered serious head injuries and died at a hospital after being hit by a motorcycle while walking across a road close to a movie set near Athens’ main port of Piraeus.

The driver, also injured and hospitalized, was...