3 Die In Athens Riot Over Cutbacks, Debt Crisis (ap)

Protestors chant anti government slogans outside the Greek Parliament Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Protestors tried to storm Greece's parliament and hurled paving stones at police, who responded with tear gas Wednesday as tens of thousands of outraged Greeks took to the streets to protest harsh new spending cuts aimed at saving their country from bankruptcy. The banner reads: 'The 'haves' should pay for the crisis - Thieves, crooks, despoilers'(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP – Rioting over harsh austerity measures left three people dead in a torched Athens bank and clouds of tear gas drifting past parliament, in an outburst of anger that underlined the long and difficult struggle Greece faces to stick with painful cutbacks that come with an international bailout.

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