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About 50.000 people massed in the streets of northern Greece's biggest city Thessaloniki on Sunday in a protest over the Macedonia name dispute between Athens and Skopje, police said. IMAGES
Greek protesters clash with riot police, who beat them back with tear gas after a historic Greek-Macedonian deal to end a 27-year name row. Some 500 demonstrators, waving Greek flags, had tried to approach the signature ceremony on the banks of Lake Prespa on the other side of the mountain from where the protest took place. IMAGES
Macedonians take to the streets of the capital Skopje, demanding fair elections following a year of political deadlock amid corruption allegations.
Migrants defy the rain to stage a protest on Greece's border with Macedonia, chanting 'Merkel' as they pin their hopes on the German chancellor to help open borders and restore the so-called 'Balkan corridor". Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
Tens of thousands demonstrate in central Athens as public anger mounts at Greece's worst rail tragedy. Fifty-seven people were killed, and 14 others remain in hospital after a freight train crashed head-on with a passenger train, carrying mostly students, on February 28. IMAGES
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