Greek Parliament in Athens

Demonstrators carry a giant puppet during a protest outside Greek Parliament in Athens on Thursday. Hundreds of musicians, actors and other art workers demanded more support for their sector. "We are here," read a message drawn in chalk on the street. In the northern city of Thessaloniki, musicians performed tied up in red-and-white cordon tape.

Guards at the Greek Parliament in Athens detained a 65-year-old man who threw a gas canister inside the building's yard on Monday afternoon.
The suspect, who was walking on the adjacent sidewalk of Vasilisis Sofias avenue in central Athens, threw a gas canister inside the yard, which did not explode.

Michel Barnier, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, expressed solidarity with Greece on Friday in an address to a joint committee meeting of the Greek Parliament in Athens.

"I am in Greece at a moment of national mourning, which is also a European mourning," he said.

Firefighters in full rescue gear held a rally in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens yesterday, demanding that the leftist-led government rehire 1,320 workers on short-term contracts. Firemen have been pressing to be included on a list of exemptions from the hiring freeze that applies to some other emergency services.

Thousands of people gathered in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Thursday evening in support of the new government's efforts to renegotiate Greece's international loans and end austerity.

SYRIZA MP Yiannis Micheloyiannakis, who announced on Saturday that he was going on hunger strike in solidarity with Syrian refugees protesting outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, responded to criticism after he was seen leaving the protest site to have coffee at a nearby establishment.

Greece may resort to legal action against Turkey for allegedly violating the international sea law, Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos said on Nov. 12.