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Riot police entered and ended a “sit-in” occupation of the tertiary law school in the northeast border city of Komotini on Monday afternoon, with 18 individuals detained and taken to a local precinct.

With truncheons and kicks, the men of riot police thwarted demonstrators from an anti-war rally trying to tear down a statue of US president Harry S. Truman statue in the center of Athens. Chemicals were used, before the protesters finally dispersed.

With 154 MPs voting “yes” from amongthe members of SYRIZA, ANEL and independent Theodora Megalomikonomou, the draft law with the prerequisites of the third evaluation was approved in principle.