ATHENS, Greece – By now, it almost feels like a ritual: a strike and large demonstration disrupted by skirmishes and tear gas ahead of a parliamentary vote on new austerity measures that Greece needs to take to qualify for the next installment of aid the country needs to fend off default. But what was different Wednesday, the first day of a two-day general strike before Parliament voted in the evening to approve new austerity measures, was the scale of the protest – tens of thousands of people – and the range of the demonstrators. Although the…
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Unrest over austerity takes an ominous turn in Greece