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  Teachers and riot police clashed in central Athens on Monday afternoon, following a protest against a new system of hiring educators which the Greek government announced recently. The protest was organized by D.O.E. and O.L.M.E., the largest teachers' unions in...

Dozens of teachers clashed with the police outside the Greek parliament in Syntagma Square on Friday over the government's proposed reforms to the educational system. Riot police used tear gas to push the demonstrators away in clashes which happened to...

Two people were injured during a Monday morning protest that occurred in Thessaloniki’s refugee camp of Diavata. Approximately forty refugees and migrants blocked the road outside of the camp, demanding better living conditions. The Diavata area has been covered in snow...

A day after widespread clashes between anarchists and police in central Athens and Thessaloniki, the scenes coming from the two city centers are shocking. Cars and motorbikes lie as burned-out hulks, shops are destroyed and streets choked with debris look...

Scores of young people who took to the streets of Athens to mark the tenth anniversary of the murder of teen Alexandros Grigoropoulos clashed with police in streets around central Athens on Thursday evening. The new confrontations took place around...

Demonstrators marked the tenth anniversary of the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos clashed with police in central Athens on Thursday. Youths hurled Molotov cocktails at police officers and smashed shop windows along Stadiou Street before police responded with teargas. Authorities deployed about...

Violent clashes erupted on the streets of central Athens right after the conclusion of the annual march commemorating the 1973 Polytechnic uprising against the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 until 1974. Despite more than 5,000 police officers being...

Greek police say at least six people were wounded in clashes that broke out early on Monday between gangs of Greeks and Albanians in Gerakas, east of Athens. The injured, three Greeks and three Albanian nationals, were transferred to hospitals...

Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesters near Lake Prespa where the ceremony for the Greece, FYROM agreement took place on Sunday morning. Opponents of the deal gathered near the village of Psarades waiving Greek flags and shouting slogans accusing...

Greek authorities say that up to 30 people were injured during overnight clashes between migrants and angry locals, identified my some reports as being right-wing extremists, in the capital of Lesvos, Mytilene. Greek police has announced that 120 migrants, mostly...