Greece

Hundreds of demonstrators defied a ban on demonstrations and gathered on two separate locations in central Athens on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the Polytechnic student uprising. Despite warnings that the rallies would be unlawful as the country tries...

More than one hundred and twenty-nine individuals have been taken in for questioning since a major police operation got underway in the area of Omonoia Square in central Athens on Friday. The operation was conducted just one day after an...

One person was killed and at least one other was injured on Thursday during a violent clash between rival migrant groups in the center of Athens. The incident occurred in broad daylight on Menandrou Street, in a busy part of...

The cause of Thursday afternoon's fire at an Athens hotel which sent three people to the hospital very well might be officially attributed to arson, Fire Brigade investigators reported on Thursday evening. Two plastic containers with flammable liquid were recovered intact...

A peaceful protest, this time organized by associations of Greek high school students, turned violent on Monday afternoon when a group of unknown individuals attacked police forces outside the Greek Parliament in Athens. At the exact same spot where similar...

Clashes between leftist students and police seem to have returned to central Athens for good since, for yet another day, the city center of the Greek capital was closed on Thursday, as thousands of students marched against the new,...

Another mostly peaceful demonstration of students organized by left-wing student associations ended in clashes in central Athens on Thursday. Several hundred protesters attempted to overturn the riot police's ''MAT'' trucks, which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas Avenue in...

Despite the cloudy and rainy weather, thousands of people marched in central Athens on Tuesday morning, participating in the 24-hour general strike declared by the country's largest labor unions. Athens buses, trams, and the Metro line 1 (from Piraeus to...

A group of vandals disrupted traffic on central Athens' Patission Avenue on Monday afternoon, setting trash bins on fire and scattering fliers in support of convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufontinas. The unrest took place outside the Athens University of Economics and...

A group of reportedly young people wearing hoodies threw petrol bombs at the ruling SYRIZA party offices in Central Athens on Saturday night. Right after midnight local time, the group threw a series of petrol bombs at the stationed unit...

Constantinos Michalos, the President of the Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EBEA) called on the Greek authorities on Saturday to compensate the businesses that were vandalized on Thursday night in central Athens. A group of supporters of the convicted...

A group of supporters of convicted terrorist Dimitris Koudontinas vandalized shops in central Athens on Thursday night in an apparent protest at Greek authorities' refusal to grant him a new furlough. Approximately thirty self-styled anarchists wielding clubs smashed windows of two...

  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...

Student demonstrators opposing reforms to Greek secondary education clashed with police in central Athens on Monday. Police fired tear gas at protesters who were hurling Molotov cocktails and rocks in Syntagma Square, opposite the Greek Parliament. There are no reports of...