Riot police

Riot police forces intervened outside the Labor Ministry in central Athens when a group of hotel industry employees taking part in a rally attempted to enter the building on Tuesday. There were no reports of injuries or arrests.

The rally was organized by the union of employees working in tourism, hotels and catering companies in Athens in protest to changes in their pension scheme.

Riot police units clashed with a group of around 40 people hurling petrol bombs in the Exarchia district of Athens early on Monday morning.

The standoff began on the corner of Tositsa and Patission streets at 1.30 a.m. and continued until around 4 a.m. and led police to cordon off Patission street.

One 26-year-old was detained.

The Greek government might have been promising that the refugee crisis would be well under control at the hotspots by Easter, but reality has so far proven these promises empty. The atmosphere at the impromptu refugee camps and the organised hotspots resemble a powder keg ready to go off.

Migrants clashed  with riot police inside the Moria reception center on the Aegean island of Lesvos on Tuesday following reports that a number of asylum applications were turned down, with at least 10 people said to have been injured in the unrest.

The chief of general staff of the Turkish Armed Forces and the country's National Intelligence Agency (M?T) head carried out inspections on April 13 in the southern province of Kilis, which had been struck by rocket fire from Syria for three consecutive days, as Turkey's defense minister, who also visited the city near the Syrian border, said 362 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) mili

Outraged locals in the southern province of Kilis, on the border with Syria, have rallied in front of the Governor's Office to demand greater security measures, as the conflict in Syria continues to have spillover effects. 

Locals in the southern province of Kilis, on the border with Syria, have rallied in front of the Governor's Office to demand greater security measures, as the conflict in Syria continues to have spillover effects. 

A man approached the car of a Bulgarian lawmaker and tried to set it ablaze using a burner, local media outlets report.

The perpetrator was detained by security guards in front of Parliament, where the incident occurred, and was soon taken away by police.

Turkish police detained senior local officials from the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Jan. 8 in a raid on one of its Istanbul offices, party officials have said, just days after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said he backed legal action against its members. 

The Radical Left Coalition’s (SYRIZA) transition from a vibrant, youthful idealistic party to a supporter of the third bailout has caused existential problems amongst its younger members.

September’s victory lacked the jubilance of the January election with most of its younger set choosing to distance itself from the party’s failed promises and rapid U-turn to austerity.