Political riots

Clashes have broken out inside Greece's Olympic Stadium ahead of a Champions League match between AEK Athens and Ajax on Tuesday evening.

Riot police dispersed home fans who threw plastic bottles and other objects at visiting supporters. No arrests or injuries were immediately reported.

Security forces in Paris have fired tear gas and used a water cannon today to disperse 'yellow vest' protesters who tried to break through a police cordon on the Champs-Elysées, reported rte.ie

Police fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies, the second weekend of "yellow vest" protests that have caused disruption across France.

Tensions rose during a protest rally by public hospital workers outside the Finance Ministry on Thursday after they tried to break through a riot police line to enter the building in central Athens.

Television footage showed protesters pushing policemen to reach the entrance and raising the roller grilles. It was not clear if anyone managed to enter the building.

Strange as it may sound, there is something which connects the deadlocked talks between Greece's leftist-led government and the Church of Greece with the annual clashes around the Athens Polytechnic. It's the blatant inability, or refusal, to change things.

The much-hyped day of protests in Bulgaria on November 18 saw traffic disruptions by protesters in cars in some parts of the country, while in Sofia participation numbered little more than a few hundred people, under grey skies and light rain, reports Unian.

A total of 19 people were arrested by police forces in Athens during clashes with anarchists.

A crowd of school and university students along with teachers cracked open the shutters of the ministry of education and barged into the office of the minister to protest against the government's new reforms to the secondary education system and funding cuts.

Police in northern Greece have set off tear gas and flash grenades during a rally to protest the fatal police shooting of a man in Albania.

Albanian police shot Greek-Albanian dual citizen Constantinos Katsifas over the weekend, saying he opened fire on officers at an ethnic Greek village.

Greek youths clashed with police in central Athens on Monday as a protest against education reform turned violent when it reached parliament's Syntagma square.

Protesters threw stones, flares and petrol bombs at police who responded with teargas.