Year in Focus

Demonstrators throw fire bombs to riot police during violent protests in central Athens February 12, 2012.

Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police as the Greek parliament prepared to vote on a new and deeply unpopular EU/IMF austerity deal, to secure a 130 billion euro bailout, aimed at saving Greece from bankruptcy and what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be ‘uncontrollable economic chaos’.

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