Cuts and tears: Greek police disperse angry mob (Luka dan air mata: Polis Yunani menyuraikan perusuh marah)

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Polis rusuhan Greek telah menggunakan gas pemedih mata untuk menyuraikan orang ramai yang yang mengamuk rioters membaling bom petrol dan batu. Pada Greece terhenti sekali lagi, dengan orang melepaskan kemarahan mereka pada luka yang lebih, yang EU menuntut dalam pulangan untuk dana penting. Keganasan berlaku pada 7000 orang ramai yang kuat aman menuju ke parlimen Yunani, Associated Press melaporkan. Beberapa kumpulan belia mula membaling batu dan koktel Molotov dan polis terpaksa menggunakan gas pemedih mata bagi meredakan ketegangan.

Tiada kecederaan telah dilaporkan. Sejumlah kira-kira 17,000 orang berkumpul untuk 2 serangan berasingan di Athens, sebagai 2 terbesar kesatuan sekerja Greece melancarkan mogok 48 jam pada hari Jumaat. Perkhidmatan paling awam di Greece terjejas, termasuk pengangkutan awam dan hospital. Protes segar datang sehari selepas Parlimen Yunani membincangkan perjanjian pada 1 set luka baru dan perjanjian dengan pemiutangnya swasta pada parameter hutang menulis.

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Menteri Yunani meletakkan jawatan

Kabinet Yunani (Nasaro) telah kehilangan 6 menteri dalam 2 hari, sebagai ahli politik terus meletak jawatan, enggan menerima beban yang sukar langkah-langkah penjimatan baru yang dikenakan ke atas Greece. Timbalan menteri asing, Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou dari PASOK pihak sosialis, adalah yang terkini untuk meletakkan jawatan pada hari Jumaat.

Menteri Pengangkutan parti Laos dan timbalan menteri marin saudagar dan pertanian meletak jawatan lebih awal pada hari yang sama. Timbalan Menteri buruh, Koutsoukos Yannis, seorang ahli Parti Sosialis meletak jawatan sehari sebelum pada hari Khamis, berkata bahawa dia telah berhenti kerana langkah-langkah yang "menyakitkan bagi para pekerja."

Jauh kanan Greece pemimpin parti Laos, George Karatzaferis, berkata beliau tidak akan mengundi memihak kepada perjanjian bailout baru. Walau bagaimanapun, dengan hanya 16 timbalan di parlimen, parti Laos tidak akan mampu untuk menyekat perjanjian bailout dalam kes Sosialis dan yang konservatif mengundi memihak. Parlimen adalah disebabkan untuk mengundi di atas perjanjian pada hari Isnin. Greece mempunyai jumlah hutang antara lebih kurang 350 bilion euro, dan cuba untuk berunding bailout 130 bilion euro dari Kesatuan Eropah (EU) dan Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa, yang mana, jika dipersetujui, akan bailout tunai kali ke-2.

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Greek riot police have used tear gas to disperse the crowd of raging rioters throwing petrol bombs and stones. Greece is at a standstill once again, with people venting their anger at more cuts, which the EU is demanding in return for vital funds. Violence erupted during as a peaceful 7,000-strong crowd was heading to the Greek parliament, the Associated Press reported. Several groups of youth started throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and the police had to use tear gas to defuse the tension.

No injuries have been reported. A total of some 17,000 people gathered for two separate strikes in Athens, as Greece’s two biggest unions launched a 48-hour strike on Friday. Most public services in Greece were affected, including public transport and hospitals. The fresh protests come a day after the Greek parliament discussed a deal on a new set of cuts and an agreement with private creditors on the parameters of a debt write-down.

Greek ministers resign

The Greek cabinet has lost six ministers in two days, as politicians continue to resign, refusing to accept the tough burden of new austerity measures imposed on Greece. The deputy foreign minister, Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou from the socialist PASOK party, was the latest to resign on Friday.

The LAOS party's transport minister and the deputy ministers of the merchant marine and agriculture resigned earlier the same day. The deputy labour minister, Yannis Koutsoukos, a member of the Socialist Party resigned a day before on Thursday, saying that he was quitting because the measures were "painful for working people."

Greece's far-right LAOS party leader, George Karatzaferis, said he would not vote in favor of a new bailout agreement. However, with only 16 deputies in the parliament, LAOS party will not be able to block the bailout agreement in case the Socialists and the conservatives vote in its favor. The parliament is due to vote on the agreement on Monday. Greece has a total debt of about 350 billion euro, and is trying to negotiate a 130-billion-euro bailout from the EU and International Monetary Fund, which, if it is agreed, will be the second such cash bailout.