ATHENS: Greece's new hard-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent the Athens stock market diving on Wednesday after his government scrapped key privatisation projects and pressed home its demand for debt relief.

In sweeping announcements two days after taking power, Tsipras began reversing many of the unpopular measures that underpin Greece's 240-billion-euro ($269 billion) bailout programme.

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