The leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party and four more of its lawmakers will make their pleas against charges of belonging to a criminal organisation tomorrow, after being arrested following the killing of an anti-fascist rapper.

Greece imposed a wave of new tax rises today despite recession and high unemployment, as EU finance ministers met to discuss the country’s debt crisis.

More than 30,000 protesters marched through Athens today as a nationwide strike against government cuts crippled the country.

A nationwide strike hit Greece today crippling public services, grounding flights and closing schools in a demonstration against government cuts brought on by its financial crisis.

A BOMB threat forced a passenger plane to divert to a British airport under military escort for an emergency landing yesterday.