Clashes over Greek austerity measures

GREEK protesters clashed with police and set fire to cars and a hotel in central Athens yesterday as tens of thousands marched against austerity measures aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis.

Riot police responded with dozens of rounds of tear gas in clashes that lasted more than an hour, with police chasing hooded youths who threw sticks and stones.

Hours earlier, parliament approved reforms and spending cuts that are a condition of a €110 billion EU/IMF bailout, offered to Greece in exchange for austerity measures.