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Riot police stand behind a burning roadblock in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Deadly riots over harsh new austerity measures engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, and three people were killed as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets as part of nationwide strikes to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a $141 billion bailout package of loans to keep it from defaulting. Associated Press

Greece Financial Crisis

Riot police stand behind a burning roadblock in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Deadly riots over harsh new austerity measures engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, and three people were killed as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets as part of nationwide strikes to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a $141 billion bailout package of loans to keep it from defaulting.