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Bomb explodes outside tax office
Athens :: Greece | 4 months ago
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A powerful bomb exploded outside an Athens tax office early today causing considerable damage but no injury, Greek police said. The blast occurred at 4.35am local time today in the central Ambelokipi district, and followed an anonymous warning call to...
Tags: Athens, tax office, bomb exploded, mcdonalds restaurant, exploded outside, central athens, McDonalds
Anarchists fight with police in central Athens
Athens :: Greece | 9 months ago
Credibility Greece— Several hundred self-styled anarchists fought with police in central Athens Saturday after a march to demand the release of people arrested during riots last month. Shoppers crowding Athens' main shopping district for winter sales were startled...
Tags: Athens, central athens
Riot police and protesters clash in Athens
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility Riot police clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in central Athens today, sending Christmas shoppers and people in cafes running for cover. Frightened parents scooped up their children from a Christmas carousel in the city's main square and fled....
Tags: police, athens, teenager, anarchist, Athens University Law School, riots police, riots, Greek Parliament, tear gas, central athens
Greek soccer fans riot over killing verdict
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Police in Greece say soccer fans rioted in central Athens following a court decision over the violent death of a fan last year. The clashes broke out amid unrelated but ongoing violence staged by high school students and other protesters over the fatal...
Tags: Greece Greek, Athens, tear gas, rioted police, greeks shop, hurled rocks, greeks youths, central athens, shop owners, early elections
Greek violence flares for sixth day
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Trouble flared before dawn in Athens when students occupying the university clashed with police...Unemployment, especially high among young people and women, rose to 7.4 per cent in September from 7.1 in August, reversing four years of decline, and economists...
Tags: police, teenager, riots, Athens, Greece, violent protesters, central athens, Europe, police killing, Greek
Strikes cripple Greece, shaken by riots
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: riots police, Greece, Athens, general strike, Parliament, central athens, police shoot, tear gas, nationwide general, fired tear
Greek police shooting sparks riot
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Riots have broken out in several Greek cities after police shot dead a teenager in the capital Athens, the BBC reports. The unrest began soon after the shooting in the central Exarchia district, a regular scene of clashes between police and leftist groups.
Tags: Athens, greeks city, central athens, Greece, Greek, Thessaloniki, police shoot, riots police, old boy, shops windows
Millions strike in Greece to protest plan to overhaul pensions
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Millions of Greeks walked off their jobs Wednesday in a show of defiance against a pension overhaul...Tourists bound for Greece for the Easter holidays faced travel delays as Olympic Airlines, the country's struggling state carrier, canceled more
Tags: greek, Europe Greece, Athens, killed, riot police, pensions reform, general strike, police fired, Greeks, central athens
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