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Strikes cripple Greece, shaken by riots

Source: International Herald Tribune
Athens : Greece | 12 months ago  
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Outrage over the death was widespread, fueled by what experts say is a growing frustration with unemployment and corruption in one of the European Union's consistently underperforming economies, worsened by global recession. But it was expressed in violence in the streets by student anarchists,...
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