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Protests in Greece
5
May
Riots over harsh new austerity measures left three bank workers dead and engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. Police responded with barrages of tear gas. Read the latest story.
A Molotov cocktail and tear gas canisters are thrown during clashes between protesters and riot police in central Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Protestors tried to storm Greece's parliament and hurled paving stones at police, who responded with tear gas as tens of thousands of outraged Greeks took to the streets to protest harsh new spending cuts aimed at saving their country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Protesters flee from tear gas deployed by Greek riot police as they clash on May 5, 2010 in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
Protesters take part during an anti-government rally in Athens on Wednesday May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Protesters take part in a rally in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
A pro-communist protester shouts slogans against the parliament in front of the parliament building and the unknown soldier monument in Athens, Wednesday May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
Pro-communist protesters shout slogans against the parliament in front of the parliament building in Athens on Wednesday May 5, 2010.
A protester gestures to riot police outside the Greek Parliament in central Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A demonstrator offers help to a riot police officer who slipped and fell, as she speaks on the phone during an anti government rally in Athens on Wednesday May 5, 2010. Deadly riots over harsh new austerity measures engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, and three people were killed as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
A demonstrator confronts riot police officers standing guard in front of the unknown soldier monument in central Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
A riot police cordon secures the Greek Parliament in front of protestors in central Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Protesters carry a man injured during clashes with police at the Greek Parliament in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Protesters scuffle with riot police at the Greek Parliament in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Demonstrators throw stones at the police in central Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
Demonstrators run away from tear gas during an anti government rally in Athens on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
A petrol bomb expodes near riot police during an anti Government rally in Athens, Wednesday May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
A pro-communist protester shouts slogans against the parliament in front of the parliament building in Athens on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
Protesters outside parliament on May 5, 2010 in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
A passenger sleeps near empty check-in lines at Athens airport, on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, where all flights are canceled by a 24-hour air traffic controllers' strike, part of a civil service walkout against wage freezes. Flights to and from Greece were grounded, trains and ferries suspended their routes and public services were paralyzed Wednesday. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
