Greece is closed for 48 hours - flights are grounded, schools, shops and factories all quiet - as the country endures what's being called the 'mother of all strikes'. It's arguably the biggest protest since the financial turmoil that's crippling the country began - but more cuts could be coming. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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Young demonstrators hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out on Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public ransportation around the country. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades at protesters, blanketing parts of the city centre in choking smoke. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com

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www.euronews.net A 24-hour general strike brought Greece to a standstill on Wednesday amid continued protests against government spending cuts. Athens has agreed on tougher austerity measures with its international lenders: the so-called troika of the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the IMF. Public sector cuts and a wave of privatisations form part of Greek efforts to trim its budget deficit and receive the next slice of emergency funding of 8 billion euros.

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www.euronews.net Much of Greece is expected to shut down this week as the country prepares for a 48 hour strike. Greece's two main unions, representing half the workforce, want the biggest strike yet to reach its zenith on Thursday when parliament votes on further austerity measures. The strikes will disrupt food and fuel supplies, transport and leave hospitals run by skeleton staff. However the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, has defied the protests pledging to push through even more deeply unpopular measures.

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No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | www.euronews.net More than 1200 public sector employees took to the streets of Athens and staged a protest outside the Parliament over austerity measures, threatening to continue strikes until next week.

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www.euronews.net Public sector workers have been out on the streets of Athens again, as they continue to lash out at economic reforms being demanded by the Greek government. Unions now say a planned general strike next week will be extended to 48 hours. As protestors crippled services in the capital, the Greek Prime Minister was meeting with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in Brussels, to discuss his country's financial woes.

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Greece is closed for 48 hours - flights are grounded, schools, shops and factories all quiet - as the country endures what's being called the 'mother of all strikes'. It's arguably the biggest protest since the financial turmoil that's crippling the country began - but more cuts could be coming.

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www.euronews.net In the centre of Athens youths broke up marble paving slabs and hurled them at police on Wednesday. The response was tear gas as riot police chased the protesters. The demonstrations were part of the 24-hour strike organised by the Greek Communist Party labour movement in protest at the government's austerity measures. About 1000 police were deployed in the centre of the capital. They say several people were detained and two injured.

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GREECE - STRIKE - FRANCE 24 correspondent Nathalie Savaricas reports from Athens. Greek MPs were set to vote on the country's crucial austerity bill Wednesday, a condition for bailout funds needed to prevent a potentially disastrous default. Riots outside parliament on the eve of the vote left 46 people injured. FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7 www.france24.com

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Greek riot police have fired tear gas and fought running battles with protesters, amid a 48-hour general strike that has paralysed the country. Some protesters hurled petrol bombs and stones at the police, as a march by tens of thousands of people in central Athens turned violent. Many Greeks are furious at the latest round of austerity proposals. EU leaders and global finance chiefs have flown to Germany to discuss the eurozone crisis. French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and senior officials from the European Central Bank and IMF. Greece is struggling to reduce a huge government deficit amid fears it may default and set off a crisis, engulfing other eurozone countries like Spain and Italy. The EU and IMF have demanded tough cuts in return for two bailout packages, and their meeting in Frankfurt comes days before high-level EU talks on the crisis. Gas masks The Greek government has so far introduced one round of austerity measures. Continue reading the main story Analysis Gavin Hewitt BBC Europe editor At stake here is not just whether the Greek parliament can get its legislation through. Seeing the vast numbers on the street, the government ministries occupied, the violence, it has to be asked whether Greece can impose these new austerity measures. And if it can't, will the EU and IMF go ahead with the next tranche of bailout money? Without the next 8bn euros ($11bn; £7bn) Greece will soon find itself unable to pay its bills. But <b>...</b>

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For latest updates, follow RT on twitter.com and www.facebook.com In the streets of Greece, arguably the biggest protest in years is now descending into violence. People are venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures the country is likley to adopt as soon as Thursday.

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Police fire tear gas at hundreds of protesters in central Athens where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against cuts which the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy.

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Health workers in Greece have taken to the streets over spending cuts and changes to the service that they say will harm the quality of the system. It is likely that state hospitals will be merged and closed and salaries reduced as part of the government's stringent cost-cutting exercise. Taxi drivers in Greece have also staged a one-day stoppage - a month after the last one. ... www.euronews.net

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LIVE VIDEO OF ATHENS, GREECE: www.zougla.gr Greece is closed for 48 hours - flights are grounded, schools, shops and factories all quiet - as the country endures what's being called the 'mother of all strikes'. It's arguably the biggest protest since the financial turmoil that's crippling the country began - but more cuts could be coming.

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Live Stream Greece Protest - TV Greek Riots Video Feed 12160.info Video owned by Russia Today Greek protesters clash with police at austerity strike‎ Reuters Massive protests planned for Wednesday are first of three key events this week that will test Greece's resolve to deal with its debt crisis. ... Greece braces for shutdown as vote nears

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Greek anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence outside parliament on Wednesday, as demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs and riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades that echoed across Athens' main square. Police said at least 14 officers were hospitalised with injuries, and at least three journalists covering the demonstrations sustained minor injuries. The violence spread across the city centre, as at least 100-thousand people marched through the Greek capital on the first day of a two-day general strike that unions described as the largest protest in years. Most of the protesters marched peacefully, but crowds outside of parliament clashed with police who tried to disperse them with repeated rounds of tear gas. Hundreds of rioting youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens on Wednesday after the mass anti-government rally against the new painful austerity measures. Police and rioters held running battles through the narrow streets of central Athens, as thick black smoke from burning rubbish and bus-stops set ablaze filled the city's skyline and obscured its ancient monuments. A gasoline bomb set fire to a presidential guard sentry post at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Parliament, while running clashes broke out in several side streets near the legislature and the capital's main Syntagma Square. Nearby, groups of hooded, masked protesters tore chunks of marble off building fronts with hammers <b>...</b>

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www.euronews.net Greek transport workers on Monday staged their sixth strike in a fortnight in protest at government spending cuts. Athens ground to a standstill as metro staff, bus drivers and rail employees all took part in the industrial action. The government wants to slash jobs and public sector wages to keep emergency loans flowing. The so-called troika of the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank are set to conclude talks by Tuesday on whether to pay out the next aid installment of eight billion euros.

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FYI: www.youtube.com ATHENS, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of demonstrators surrounded the Greek parliament building in Athens on Thursday for the second day of a 48-hour general nationwide strike that has paralyzed the country. Information provided by cctv.com Thank you www.cctv.com To watch CCTV News 24 live news feed click here: english.cntv.cn

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www.euronews.net Greece has been paralysed by another strike to protest against the latest austerity measures aimed at avoiding financial collapse. The government has announced further cuts in pensions and more tax rises on top of the first round of cuts last year. Contract worker Maria Prokopiou said "Right now I haven't got any money at all. How can I pay? All these measures are very hard. To me, it seems that they are asking for the dead to pay."

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Thousands of protesters on Thursday took part in an annual demonstration in the capital Athens to commemorate 1973 crackdown on a student uprising by the military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. Some 7000 police - about one for every demonstrator - were monitoring the protest, which comes at the height of a vicious financial crisis that has seen many violent demonstrations. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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Austerity measures that have been introduced in Greece have taken 30 percent of wages away from the people, and fresh strikes are taking place in Athens before the next austerity bill is being decided on later this week. People have clashed violently with Police with molotov cocktails being thrown and tear gas and flash bangs being used against protestors and strikers.

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Firefighters were called in late on Wednesday to extinguish piles of rubbish set ablaze by protesters in Athens after riots broke out during a demonstration by about 100-thousand people on the first of a two-day general strike. Violence spread across the centre of the city earlier in the day, following the massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures. Authorities said about 3000 police were deployed on the capital's streets. RT on Twitter: twitter.com RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com

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Thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets of Athens in a warning to new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos. But this new government is not the result of popular pressure, says Yanis Varoufakis, professor of economics at Athens University. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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Greece is once again in the grip of a general strike as people protest against the governments raft of harsh austerity measures aimed to keep the debt-ridden the country solvent. Athens is currently planning further measures to save an extra 23 billion euros by 2015. Ordinary Greeks are outraged: Helen Hollidou is a protesting pensioner: ... www.euronews.net

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As concern grows that the Eurozone is falling deeper into recession, finance chiefs are hammering out plans to safeguard the region's banks. EU Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, said there were plans to recapitalise them. There's doubt that the next bailout installment for Greece will actually go ahead, and fallout from the country's resulting default would deal a severe blow to Europe's banking sector. In Greece itself the latest 24-hour nationwide strike turned violent, as police fired tear gas on angry crowds of anti-austerity protesters. The government is imposing more cuts on its people, trying to cap a massive debt of some 350-billion Euros. The country ground to a halt, as workers walked out in a general strke, leaving flights grounded and hospitals relying on emergency staff. RT's Sara Firth witnessed the Greek capital as it boiled over. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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Greece remains paralyzed by the two-day general strike as thousands of Greeks continue to protest across the country against new budget cuts. Parliament is due vote on another round of the intensely unpopular austerity measures needed to secure continued payment from an international bailout fund. RT on Twitter: twitter.com RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com

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Thousands of anti-capitalists are marching in the French Riviera ahead of the G-20 summit in Cannes. Groups of international activists are urging the leaders of the world's top economies to focus on people, not finance. James Meadway from the New Economics Foundation shares his view on the crisis that's strengthening its grip on Europe. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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LIVE FEED Syntagma Square: www.zougla.gr www.zerohedge.com Greek anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence outside parliament on Wednesday, as demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs and riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades that echoed across Athens' main square. Police said at least 14 officers were hospitalised with injuries, and at least three journalists covering the demonstrations sustained minor injuries. The violence spread across the city centre, as at least 100-thousand people marched through the Greek capital on the first day of a two-day general strike that unions described as the largest protest in years. Most of the protesters marched peacefully, but crowds outside of parliament clashed with police who tried to disperse them with repeated rounds of tear gas. Hundreds of rioting youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens on Wednesday after the mass anti-government rally against the new painful austerity measures. Police and rioters held running battles through the narrow streets of central Athens, as thick black smoke from burning rubbish and bus-stops set ablaze filled the city's skyline and obscured its ancient monuments. A gasoline bomb set fire to a presidential guard sentry post at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Parliament, while running clashes broke out in several side streets near the legislature and the capital's main Syntagma Square. Nearby, groups of hooded, masked <b>...</b>

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It's been confirmed the Greek Prime Minister's proposed referendum on the latest EU bailout will go ahead. George Papandreou's call shocked EU leaders, and sparked chaos on world markets. It even came as a shock to Greeks themselves, with pro-bailout MP's calling for his immediate resignation. The PM is now due to fly to the G20 meeting in Cannes to explain his actions to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the chief sponsors of Greece's financial life-support machine. Anthony Wile is the founder and editor-in-chief of thedailybell.com welcomes the possible Eurozone collapse. RT on Twitter http RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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Greek anti-austerity protesters are walking out of work and onto the streets. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.

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