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News Source: Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Greek protesters clashed with police and officials again Saturday. Protesters in central Athens tossed trash as they faced off with police by the Christmas tree in the city's Syntagma Square. The square has been the focus of demonstrations since...
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News Source: France 24
| 11 months ago
Protesters hurled garbage at riot police who responded with tear gas Saturday, as the Greek capital saw more protests, two weeks after the police killing of a teenager that sparked nationwide unrest. The police were targeted as they ringed a...
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News Source: Japan Today
| 11 months ago
Greece — Hundreds of rioters fought battles with riot police in central Athens on Saturday, two weeks after the fatal police shooting of a teenager set off the worst civic unrest in Greece in several decades. Saturday’s violence followed a...
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News Source: Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
Greek demonstrators threw petrol bombs at finance ministry offices and torched two cars in central Athens on Saturday as anti-government protests entered a third week since police shot dead a teenager. Dozens of demonstrators pelted police with eggs...
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News Source: London Review of Books
| 11 months ago
Short Cuts Adam Shatz On 16 December, ten days into the unrest in Greece sparked by the killing of a 15-year-old boy by the police, a group of Greek students occupied the National Broadcasting Network. Interrupting a report on a parliamentary address...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 11 months ago
Greece— Protesters attacked a city-sponsored Christmas tree in central Athens Saturday, tossing garbage and hanging trash bags from its branches before clashing with riot police. In the northern city of Thessaloniki, a small-group of self-styled...
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News Source: Canadian Dimension
| 11 months ago
On the night of December 6, a special police squad in Athens murdered a 15-year-old student in cold blood in Exarchia, a neighborhood with a long tradition of activism among young people, the left and anarchists. This was only the latest instance of...
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News Source: Canada.com
| 11 months ago
We had already, after the incidents last week, warned (French) travellers to Greece to take care in city centres," said French Ambassador Christophe Farnaud, who added it was too early to say why the institute had been targetted. "We're now going to...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 11 months ago
AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) A woman with her young child look at the damaged entrance of the French Institute in Athens, Greece, on Friday, Dec...A group of 20 youths attacked the cultural institute with firebombs Friday, causing damage but no...
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News Source: Time of India
| 11 months ago
Greek police braced for more protests in Athens on Friday, a day after clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police firing teargas sent Christmas shoppers fleeing to safety. The country's two largest umbrella trade union organizations planned...