Political riots

Dozens of students clashed with riot police outside the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) on Monday, which will remain closed for seven days after police found several items on the premises used by rioting anarchists last week.

Three people were in critical condition in Hong Kong on Nov. 4, authorities said, after a weekend of chaotic clashes with anti-government protesters that led China to call for a tougher stance to end months of unrest in the Asian financial hub.

Three separate protest rallies are expected to cause traffic diruptions in central Athens on Thursday.

Students who are protesting mainly about the abolition of a law that banned police forces from entering university grounds to tackle crime will gather at Propylaea at noon and then march towards the Parliament.

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas to force protesters away from Baghdad's Green Zone on Oct. 26 ahead of a planned parliament session, AFP correspondents said, a day after 42 demonstrators were killed.    

More than 2,000 striking municipal workers have marched to Greece's Parliament to protest a planned overhaul of business and licensing rules by the new conservative government.

Protesters briefly scuffled with police on Thursday after challenging a cordon outside the Parliament building, but no arrests were reported.

Traffic jams formed in and around the city center on Thursday morning as a result of three protest rallies in downtown Athens, while motorists and commuters don't look likely to catch a break in the afternoon either.

Disgruntled municipal workers got the action going on Thursday morning, followed at noon by university students protesting the lifting of a ban on police at campuses.

At least 37 protesters were injured on Oct. 14 in clashes with police at Barcelona's airport after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine separatists to prison for illegally promoting Catalan independence, according to local authorities.       

Students clashed with police in central Athens on Friday during a protest against reforms to the higher education system by the country's conservative government.
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse protesters when they tried to break a police cordon barring access to the Parliament building.

A student uses a fire extinguisher during clashes with riot police outside the Parliament building in Athens, Friday. Greek students were protesting reforms in the country's education system. [EPA]

A large-scale opposition protest is planned in Moscow today.

This time the protest is allowed by the authorities and his idea is to support "political prisoners". That's what the opposition calls the people arrested during the summer protests.