Police fires teargas at rioters during anti-austerity protest on general strike day

Police fired teargas at rioters during the big anti-austerity protest in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Thousands joined the unions rally on the day of the general strike. People wearing hoods started to throw stones at riot police squads when the big rally of unions and political parties reached the building of the Greek parliament at … The post Police fires teargas at rioters during anti-austerity protest on general strike day appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

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Earthquake 5.2R rattles Rhodes and neighboring islands in SE Greece

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred at 2:30 pm on Wednesday in the sea area between the islands of Rhodes and Karpathos in Southeast Greece. The earthquake was felt throughout the island of Rhodes as well as in parts of the islands of Karpathos, Chalki, Kasos and Tilos … The post Earthquake 5.2R rattles Rhodes and neighboring islands in SE Greece appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Lardos in Greece

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Lardos in Greece. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 17.92 km ...

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General Strike in Greece as Government Caves in to Creditors

Members of Greece’s trade union centre GSEE, an affiliate of the ITUC, and public sector union ADEDY are today on strike against the latest round of austerity measures imposed by EU creditors and the IMF. After months of prevarication, the Greek ...

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Greeks protest against new austerity cuts

… by international creditors in Athens, Greece, May 17, 2017. (Photo by … ," Perrakis said. In return, Greece will enact poverty support measures … atop Athens in German and Greek, addressed to German Chancellor Angela …

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In Greece's deepening financial crisis, one family's struggle

ATHENS (Reuters) - Seven years into Greece's deepening economic crisis, those living on the breadline have been hit hard. The Argyros family are emblematic of the poverty in Greece after years of austerity demanded by the country's international creditors.

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The Latest: Spain: No IS links to migrant smuggling gang

Spanish police say that a criminal network that smuggled migrants into Europe over a decade has no known links to Islamic extremists. European Union police agency Europol says it helped break up the gang, and that seven alleged members, including its suspected leader, were arrested in Spain and one in Greece as a result of a coordinated series of raids on houses in late March. A Spanish police statement said the network leader, a man of Syrian origin, was arrested in Madrid and his brother in Athens. European Union police agency Europol says it has helped break up a criminal network that had been working for 10 years to smuggle migrants into Europe and provide them with false identification documents. Europol said in a statement Wednesday that seven alleged members of the gang, including its suspected leader, were arrested in Spain and one in Greece as a result of a coordinated series of raids on houses in late March.

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