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An Athens court on Monday acquitted 34-year-old defendant Theodoros Sipsas of all charges related to the firebombing of a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens during an anti-austerity riot in 2010 that led to the death of three bank workers.

DNA traces of at least three people have been found on the weapons cache found over the weekend near PM Aleksandar Vucic's family home in suburban Belgrade.

Riot police officers were targeted by unidentified assailants who launched Molotov cocktails at them in the central Athens district of Exarchia late Saturday and early Sunday, authorities said.

A first attack occurred on Tositsa Street shortly before midnight, while a second assault took place at around 12.30 a.m. on Harilaou Trikoupi Street.

Police were investigating after an assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Parliament, in central Athens, on Wednesday.

No damage or injuries were reported.

Bank clerks testifying at the trial over the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, said they had been targeted by hooded assailants during a large anti-austerity protest.

The trial into the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, started on Monday with harrowing testimony from the victims' colleagues.

Protesters in Greece have hurled firebombs and other projectiles at police in front of Parliament before a controversial vote on an austerity bill.

A group of around 40 people threw close to a dozen Molotov cocktails at the Exarchia police precinct in central Athens on Sunday afternoon.

The raid caused damage but no injuries. Some of the perpetrators were also armed with sledgehammers, which they used to attack the guard post outside the police station and three parked cars.

North Korea fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on April 23 off its east coast, South Korea said, amid concerns that it might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a key ruling party meeting in May.

A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project to clear Turkey's eastern borders of land mines was launched on April 4, International Land Mine Awareness Day, at a hotel in Ankara with the participation of Defense Minister ?smet Y?ld?z.