Sun, August 01, 2010

Greece hit by strikes, clashes over austerity plan (AP)

Posted on 03/11 at 03:47 PM

A riot police officer tries try to avoid a petrol bomb, during clashes in central Athens, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Savage street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens as more than 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several off their bikes, as riot police fired volleys of tear has and stun grenades to disperse the rioters. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Clashes between riot police and rock-throwing, masked youths broke out during a demonstration Thursday in central Athens by tens of thousands of striking workers protesting austerity measures that the Greek government has said it has no choice but to implement.


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