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The Greek government is heralding what appears to be the end of the terrorist group November 17, a small but tightly knit organisation that has claimed responsibility for 23 political killings in the country over the past 27 years. Three judges sitting at a top-security court in Athens today convicted 15 members of the group, including its leader and its top assassin, on hundreds of terrorism charges after a marathon £1.4m, nine-month trial. November 17, a radical leftwing group that melded Marxist and nationalistic principles, developed in the early 1970s in opposition to the rightwing military junta that ruled Greece...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The alleged leader of Greece's November 17 terrorist group declared his innocence Saturday, police and court officials said, a day after he was charged with murdering at least 13 people, including American officials, in terror attacks dating back to the 1980s. Police, however, said other suspected members of the elusive terror band had confessed to participating in bombings, robberies and assassinations and identified Alexandros Giotopoulos, 58, as the leader of November 17. In handcuffs and a bulletproof vest, Giotopoulos was led before a public prosecutor on Friday to hear the charges that he was involved in...