Political riots

The union of Greek hospital workers, POEDIN, on Tuesday announced a four-hour work stoppage for the following day.

The action is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, starting at 11 a.m., and is expected to affect services at the country's public hospitals.

A fresh demonstration in protest at the name deal between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is scheduled to take place on Friday, to coincide with a vote in Parliament on the controversial agreement.

Epaminondas Korkoneas, an ex-police officer convicted to life over the 2008 death of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos, testified before a court in Lamia, central Greece, on Thursday, the penultimate day of his appeal.

France's anti-government "yellow vest" protesters are to put forward a list of candidates to run in upcoming European Parliament elections, it said on Jan. 23.

The ongoing appeal trial on the murder of schoolboy Alexandros Grigoropoulos 11 years ago continued in the city of Lamia on Thursday with the testimony of Epaminondas Korkoneas, the former officer convicted to life imprisonment for the killing in the first trial in 2010.

The Greek Police (ELAS) has responded to allegations of excessive force used against protesters during Sunday's rally in Athens against the country's name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Tension between the left-led government and New Democracy over the police's response to violence at Sunday's demonstration against the Prespes name deal in Athens escalated on Monday after the conservative opposition published photographs showing protesters with their faces hidden by hoods, helmets and masks walking among the demonstrators carrying iron bars and bats without drawing the police'

According to official police figures, attendance at the protest rally against the Prespes deal did not exceed 60,000.

That's below the 140,000 who attended a similar rally last February, before the deal was signed, and far below the "over 600,000" that protest organizers had expected.

Greece's largest public sector union, ADEDY, will stage a 24-hour walkout on Thursday to express solidarity with teachers who have staged a series of protests over the past week against government plans to make changes to the system of public sector hirings.

Primary school teachers clashed with riot police in Athens on Monday for the second time in under a week, during a protest against government plans to change public sector hirings.