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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Greece to vote on 2013 budget; protesters gather

A municipal worker shout slogans during a protest against budget cuts in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens. Saturday Nov. 10 2012. Greece's Parliament last week passed hugely unpopular new cutbacks demanded by the country's bailout creditors in exchange for more rescue loans. But Athens is not expected to get the money next week, as it had initially hoped, because European officials need time to study a report on Greece's public finances. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)Hundreds of protesters were converging on the Greek capital's main square outside Parliament on Sunday evening, as lawmakers debated the 2013 budget, which includes pension and salary cuts demanded by the country's international creditors in order for them to approve the next vital batch of rescue loans.



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