Protests

A U.S.-backed drive to deliver foreign aid to Venezuela met strong resistance as troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro blocked the convoys at the border and fired tear gas on protesters in clashes that left two people dead and some 300 injured.

Thousands of "yellow vest" demonstrators marched in Paris and other French cities on Jan. 26 in protests that brought sporadic clashes with police and suggested that President Emmanuel Macron has yet to defuse public discontent.

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.

Police said on Thursday the metro station on Syntagma square will close as of 4.30 p.m., ahead of a planned protest rally against the Prespes accord which is being discussed in Parliament.

The train will pass through the station without stopping.

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).

A group of hooded individuals attacked Athens's riot police headquarters in Kesariani on Tuesday afternoon, hurling firebombs towards the building.

No injuries or damages were immediately reported.

Protesters threw homemade firebombs and chunks of concrete smashed off buildings and pavements against riot officers in downtown Athens on Thursday, during a march marking the 10th anniversary of the deadly shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by an off-duty policeman in the central Exarchia district.

Police officers shouted slogans during an anti-austerity rally by members of the force in front of the White Tower in Thessaloniki on Friday - a day before the opening of the annual Thessaloniki International Fair by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The demonstration was attended by police, firefighters and port authority officials from all over Greece.

The POE-OTA union representing local authority workers is to stage a demonstration on Friday morning outside the capital's main court complex in solidarity with 35 of its members who are to face trial for their part in an anti-austerity protest in 2011.