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Elena Becatoros

Police throw tear gas at protesters during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Turkish police renew sweep through Taksim Square

Elena Becatoros, Suzan Fraser

Riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a demonstration by hundreds of people trying to prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP)

Police break through barricades in Istanbul’s Taksim Square

Elena Becatoros

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AP)

Turkey’s prime minister calls for end to protests

Elena Becatoros, Suzan Fraser

Greece heads to polls after talks collapse

Elena Becatoros

Protesters clash with riot police in Athens strike

Elena Becatoros, Menelaos Hadjicostis

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou addresses the media at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, June 20, 2011. Greece's embattled Prime Minister headed to Brussels for meetings with EU President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe) (AP)

Greek PM survives confidence vote in parliament

Elena Becatoros, Derek Gatopoulos

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou grimases before to give a speech in parliament during an emergency meeting of Socialist lawmakers, in Athens on Thursday, June 16, 2011. Papandreou vowed to stay on as prime minister, despite a party revolt that broke out Thursday against a new austerity measures that have triggered violent street protests ad widespread discontent.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (AP)

Greek crisis eases after government reshuffle

Elena Becatoros, Derek Gatopoulos

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, arrives the Presidential Palace before his meeting with the Greek President Karolos Papoulias, in central Athens, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011.Papandreou and conservative party leader Antonis Samaras discussed the creation of a power-sharing government to deal with the country's crippling debt crisis during a telephone conversation, an opposition party official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations were still ongoing. The official said the conservatives' conditions for participating in a potential grand coalition were that Papandreou leaves his current position as prime minister, and the new government re-negotiate the bailout agreement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (AP)

Greek PM replaces finance minister

Elena Becatoros

Police arrest a demonstrator trying to block the road to the Parliament during a rally against plans for new austerity measures, in central Athens, Wednesday, June 15, 2011. A 24-hour anti-austerity strike by Greece's largest labor unions crippled public services Wednesday, as the Socialist government was to begin a legislative battle to push through last-ditch cost-cutting reforms that will extend beyond its own term in office. (AP Photo) (AP)

Greek government in coalition talks amid riots

Elena Becatoros, Nicholas Paphitis

Rebel fighters, one on crutches, are seen near the front line east of Brega, Libya, Sunday, April 3, 2011. The Libyan rebel movement that controls the country's eastern half wants to install a parliamentary democracy across the country once they topple the regime of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi, according to Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, vice chairman of the National Provisional Council. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Gadhafi envoy in Europe, seeks end to war

Ben Hubbard, Elena Becatoros

Afghan officials say Taliban commander killed

Elena Becatoros

Riots in Greece on anniversary of police shooting

Elena Becatoros

New clashes in Greece after austerity bill passed

Elena Becatoros

A bank employee reacts after being rescued from a fire that broke out when the bank was attacked during anti-government protests in central Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Three people died in the fire at the branch of Marfin Egnatia Bank, while the two women and two others were rescued. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy (AP Photo/Iakovos Hatzistavrou) ** GREECE OUT ** (AP)

Protest erupts as Greece approves austerity bill

Elena Becatoros

Athens asks for activation of rescue package

Elena Becatoros