John Kolesidis / REUTERS

A protester, with a crying girl in his arms, shouts at riot police after clashes during a rally against the government's new austerity measures in Athens on Sept. 25. Greek riot police fired teargas at anti-austerity protesters who were pelting them with bottles outside parliament on Sunday in the first such unrest after a summer lull.

Anger in Athens over austerity measures

By John Makely, msnbc.com

From Reuters:

ATHENS — Greek riot police fired teargas at anti-austerity protesters pelting them with bottles outside parliament on Sunday in the first such unrest after a summer lull.

The rally of about 2,000 protesters holding banners reading "We won't pay for your crisis" and chanting "Get out of here" took place in Athens, as the country's finance minister was in Washington, scheduled to meet European Union and International Monetary Fund officials to discuss the debt crisis.

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