
WORLD NEWS
AP
JUNE 2011
28th Day
Athens, Greece
Whoosh! There's fire in Greece
As heavy groups of protestors made their way to protest alley when many workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike that disrupted public transport, leaving hospitals and emergency staff and pulled all news brodcasts off the air. Protestors are dissatisfied with a potentially dangerous default in the coming weeks. Protests turned violent in protests in reference to the securance of international funds to prevent the euro zone's first sovereingn default. Reports incidated that some 16,000 protestors conducted riots with police after the public services where shut down across Greece on Tuesday. Marching riots and looting started when protestors started walking toward the Greece Paraliment in order to prevent voting for an unpopular austerity bill. Protestors and Greek labor unions held the 24-hr nationwide strke in protest overhaul of social security, labor laws. Despite of the high rioting Greece's paraliment is still likely to approve the austerity measures on Wednesday. Rioting police doused the crowd with tear gas and other measures to gain control of the crowd. No fatalites, however many were wounded including Greece's police servicemen.
That's quite a hot riot in Greece...
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