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Riot police and protesters clashed near the official residence of Greece's prime minister on Friday, as a demonstration over education turned violent. Police fired tear gas as some of the crowd, masked and brandishing sticks, attacked officers. The day had started...

Greek riot police used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of football fans who had gathered to protest the state's handling of crisis-hit Greek soccer. Angry Olympiacos supporters gathered outside a conference center where Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was...

Footage has emerged of masked anarchists clashing with riot police in Thessaloniki on Saturday. Greece's second city had been hosting a gathering of anarchists from across the Balkans in response to a recent upsurge in far-right violence and property attacks...

A 55-year-old woman who was injured during the riots at Exarchia in Athens last Friday remains in critical but stable condition at Evangelismos hospital. Lawyer Anastasia Tsoukalas was seriously injured when a flare thrown by anarchists hit her on the...

Fourteen people were arrested in central Athens after a solidarity march for a jailed woman accused of membership in a terrorist organization turned into a riot. Around 100 protesters marched through the shopping district around Ermou Street throwing rocks and...

Violent incidents took place between hotel industry employees and the riot police forces outside the Labor Ministry in central Athens on Tuesday. There was friction after protestors from the hotel employees union broke through the police lines and entered...

Tension flared at the reception center at Lesvos as refugees who entered Greece after March 20 demanded to leave the island. The protestors are asylum-seekers who are under restriction at the island's facility due to the application of the...

Two people were killed and more than eighteen injured at Korydallos prison in Athens as inmates started fighting over control of Wing C, Greek authorities said. The violence broke out when a group of Albanian and Arab inmates attacked a Pakistani...

Minor rioting incidents involving Molotov cocktails occurred in central Athens, Greece, after the Labor Day rally ended. Anti-authoritarians threw Molotov cocktails in Propylaea and police responded by throwing stun grenades. Then, the group moved to Exarchia, where they turned over...

A shocking video depicting the riot that took place on Tuesday, April 7, in downtown Athens, Greece, near the Polytechnic school, was posted on YouTube by anti-authoritarians. The video with the eloquent title “Athens: Front line view of the riot in...