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Big fat Greek strike: MPs and govt say no escaping austerity

Anti-Austerity Protest in Greece

Debt-ridden Greece enters yet another week of anti-austerity protests. The country risks coming to a standstill as the parliament votes on a fresh austerity package of cost cuts and tax hikes for a new cash injection from its international creditors. A 24-hour strike starting Monday is expected to unite hospital doctors, journalists, Metro, taxi and train drivers and other transport workers, reports RT's Peter Oliver from Athens.

 

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Latest austerity cuts approved as 100,000 take to the streets in protest; 93 buildings damaged in Athens.

 

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