Greek Rage

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(AFP) Greeks angered at salary and pension cuts being imposed on their country burned a German flag on Tuesday as Prime Minister Lucas Papademos pushed ahead of a make or break talks on a bailout.

With the country in the grips of a general strike, scuffles broke out on Syntagma Square in central Athens where thousands of protesters braved rain to vent their anger at the EU and International Monetary Fund and at what they saw as a hard line spearheaded by Germany.

A group of nationalist protesters burned a German flag and began to set fire to one that showed the Nazi swastika, before riot police swooped in.

The country is rapidly running out of time to agree new budget action and to conclude a debt write-off with banks needed to secure a second rescue package and avoid default in about six weeks' time. ...............(more)

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