Protest marches and rioting continued across Greece for a seventh day Friday and spread to other parts of Europe in an unprecedented spree against government driven by a young demographic of high school and college students as well as anarchists.
agence france-presse/getty images A youth attacks riot police with a steel fence outside the Greek parliament in central Athens. The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old schoolboy, triggered the protest and has become crucible for working-class frustrations.

Protesters in central Athens late Thursday threw stones at Greek riot police who retaliated with tear gas.
There were reports of looting as violence across Greece, triggered by a police shooting of a teenager, continued for a sixth day.
Rage over the killing turned into anger over corruption and economic hardship, shaking the conservative government of Prime Minister Costas Kamaranlis, which has a one-seat majority in parliament.

ATHENS, Greece (CNN) — Bursts of tear gas exploded in downtown Athens as police continued to battle hundreds of young self-styled anarchists rioting Sunday in major cities across Greece.
In a fury over the death of a teenager killed by police on Saturday, angry demonstrations had not abated by late Sunday night.

A general strike brought Greece to a halt today as more than 10,000 people march on parliament as protests continue over the fatal police shooting of a schoolboy.
The demonstration in Athens was part of a previously scheduled nationwide strike but has developed into a protest against the government’s handling of the crisis that has seen four days of rioting.
Flights were grounded, banks and schools closed and hospital services restricted.
“Participation in the strike is total. The country has come to a standstill,” said Stathis Anestis, spokesman for the GSEE private sector …

BANGKOK: Anti-government protesters ended their paralysing eight-day blockade of Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport yesterday, allowing for the resumption of the first handful of flights and raising the hopes of thousands of stranded travellers.
A Thai Airways domestic flight from Phuket with about 300 passengers was the first to land, touching down shortly after 2 pm, followed shortly by the first international flight, a Royal Jordanian airliner from Amman.

BANGKOK (AFP) — A grenade attack killed an anti-government protester at a besieged Bangkok airport Tuesday, as further unrest forced a key hearing on the possible dissolution of the ruling party to move.
The incidents raised tensions in an increasingly bloody political stand-off that began a week ago, stranding about 350,000 frustrated travellers and causing massive damage to Thailand’s economy.

Washington: Counting many elements, including terrorism and nuclear weapons, in Pakistan as causes of international worries, a former top US official has described the South Asian country as an “international migraine”.
“…my own sense is Pakistan has everything that gives you an international migraine. It has nuclear weapons, it has terrorism, extremists, corruption, very poor and it’s in a location that’s really, really important to us. And now with this issue with India. So, I think that the current president and the current secretary of state, who’s on her way to …

At least 20 people, including one policeman, have been killed in riots in the Nigerian city of Jos after local elections, aid workers say.
A local journalist told the BBC that Muslim opposition supporters had gone on the rampage when they heard their candidate to head the council had lost.
This sparked unrest in the religiously divided city, with Christians burning mosques and Muslims burning churches.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed and the army sent to restore order.

Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in central Nigeria after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election.
A Muslim charity in the town of Jos says it collected more than 300 bodies, and fatalities are also expected among Christians.
There is no official confirmation yet, and figures are notoriously unreliable in Nigeria, says the BBC’s Alex Last.