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The country’s main labor unions are planning demonstrations in the capital and other major cities on Sunday to protest a planned vote in Parliament on the budget for 2015.

ADEDY, the civil servants’ union, complained on Wednesday that the budget would lead Greeks into “further deprivation” and would “perpetuate austerity and poverty.”

There was a change of mayor in the eastern Athens suburb of Kaisariani on Sunday after fresh elections were held following an appeal against the original result in May’s local elections.

Hong Kong police on Nov. 26 cleared one of the largest protest sites that has choked the city for months, arresting scores of  pro-democracy activists in what could be a turning point in the fight to wrest greater political freedom from Beijing's control.
   
Riot police clashed with protesters late into the evening as  activists sought to regroup and regain lost ground.

Twenty-five years since the overthrow of the Communist regime, Romania is to elect a President who was never affiliated whatever to the former ruling Communist Party.

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The photo exhibition "The Abandoned Bulgaria" shows 30 deserted places in the country.

It opened in Sofia's Orange Center bookshop on "Graf Ignatiev" street on November 10 and will be on till December 10.

Parties across the political spectrum on Friday condemned an arson attack that destroyed the headquarters of the free weekly Athens Voice newspaper in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia.

A verbal assault in Parliament against Communist Party (KKE) deputy Liana Kanelli cost Deputy Education Minister Giorgos Stylios his job on Thursday after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras asked the conservative cabinet member to resign.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic held talks with a delegation of China's Zhejiang Province in Belgrade Tuesday, discussing ways to improve economic cooperation between the two countries.

Parliament’s budget for next year has been reduced by almost 2 million euros to 139.9 million, according to a draft unveiled on Monday.

Of the total amount, 20.5 million euros is for MPs’ pay.

Total lawmakers’ income is largely unchanged from this year’s budget, with only their bonuses being reduced by 200,000 euros.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has called on opposition and independent MPs to clarify how they intend to vote in February’s presidential election, which could lead to an early national vote, as a new opinion poll indicated that the leftists are expanding their lead over New Democracy.