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Greece hit by strikes over austerity plan (AP)

March 11th, 2010 | Author: admin

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 – Savage street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as more than 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government’s austerity measures.


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