GREECE :STILL IN CRISIS

A masked youth walks beside a burning barricade during clashes in Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square, June 15, 2011. Angry youths hurled petrol bombs at Greece's Finance Ministry and tens of thousands of protesters marched on parliament.

Over the last decade, Greece went on a debt binge that came crashing to an end in late 2009, provoking an economic crisis. Over the next two years, Greece relied on bailout money from its richer neighbors and implemented austerity measures meant to cut its bloated deficit and restore investor confidence. But by June 2011 it found itself deep in a second recession, near the end of its cash and facing a political crisis, as anti-austerity demonstrations grew. Violence broke out this week during one of those demonstrations, injuring 11, as the frustration continued to grow and no quick fixes emerged. Today, Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou, in a broad cabinet reshuffle, appointed a new Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, in hopes of turning his country around.

A demonstrator confronts riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens, June 15, 2011. Tens of thousands of grassroots activists and unionists vowed to converge on Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square.

A demonstrator confronts riot police outside the Greek parliament in Athens June 15, 2011. Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default.

Demonstrators wave flags near the Greek parliament in Athens, June 15, 2011.

A banner reads "yes to the society no to the power" during a rally against plans for new austerity measures, in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 15, 2011. A 24-hour strike by Greece's largest labor unions was to cripple public services, as the Socialist government began a legislative battle to push through last-ditch cost cutting reforms that would exceed its own term in office. Demonstrators have camped outside parliament since May 25, 2011.

Greek riot police officers chase protesters amidst tear gas thrown by the police, during clashes in Athens' main Syntagma square, June 15, 2011. Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in central Athens Wednesday as a major anti-austerity rally degenerated into violence outside Parliament.

Riot police arrest a protestor during a demonstration near the parliament in the center of Athens. Thousands of demonstrators besieged the Greek parliament, June 15, 2011.

Protesters clash with riot police during a general strike against government austerity plans in Athens, June 15, 2011.

Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou (C) and General Secretary of PASOK's national council Nikos Athanasakis are accompanied by two security agents as they leave a meeting with Greece's President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, June 15, 2011.

A protestor evades riot police, June 15, 2011 during a demonstration near the parliament in the center of Athens. Thousands of demonstrators besieged the Greek parliament leaving at least a dozen injured ahead of a critical reform vote in parliament.

Protestors clash with riot police, June 15, 2011 during a demonstration near the parliament in the center of Athens.

Protesters clash with riot police officers during a general strike against government austerity plans in Athens, June 15, 2011.

Protestors react to tear gas, June 15, 2011

Protesters protect themselves from tear gas thrown inside a subway station, June 15, 2011.

Greek riot police officers walk amidst a cloud of tear gas thrown by police, during clashes with protesters in Athens' main Syntagma square, June 15, 2011.

Paramedics evacuate an injured protestor at Syntagma square in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, prior to a rally against plans for new austerity measures, June 15, 2011.

Protestors try to remove a fence protecting the parliament, June 15, 2011 during a demonstration in the center of Athens.

A protestor holds rocks, June 15, 2011 during a demonstration in the center of Athens. Thousands of demonstrators besieged the Greek parliament in protest of new austerity measures.

Protesters clash with riot police, June 15, 2011. Thousands of protesters ringed the Greek parliament building as the government tried to push through its emergency package.

Protesters run away from tear gas during a 24-hour general strike in Athens, June 15, 2011. Violence left at least a dozen injured.

Police stand behind a fence protecting the parliament, June 15, 2011.

Protesters try to break the fence outside the Greek parliament during a 24-hour general strike in Athens, June 15, 2011. Offices were closed and public transport on land and sea across Greece was seriously disrupted.

A protester shouts at police guarding the Greek parliament in Athens, June 15, 2011. Greek police fired tear gas at demonstrators as tens of thousands of grassroots activists and unionists vowed to converge on Athens' central Syntagma

A protester runs next to a tear gas canister, June 15, 2011

Greek riot police officers arrest a protester during a general strike. Offices were closed and public transport on land and sea across Greece was seriously disrupted as a mass general strike got under way.

Greek riot police officers run after protesters during a general strike against government austerity plans, in Athens, June 15, 2011.

Greek riot police officers arrest protesters.

Protesters move against riot police officers.

Demonstrators shout and confront riot police near the Greek Parliament in central Athens, June 15, 2011. Riot police used tear gas Wednesday to disperse groups of youths hurling firebombs and rocks.


Protesters kick away tear gas fired by riot police during a 24-hours general strike in Athens, June 15, 2011.

A demonstrator rests after being injured during massive clashes at the central Athens Syntagma square, June 15, 2011.

Riot police grapple with a demonstrator near the Greek parliament, June 15, 2011.

Riot police arrest a protestor, June 15, 2011. Thousands of demonstrators besieged the Greek parliament.

Riot police stand behind their shields during a 24-hour general strike in Athens, June 15, 2011.

Police arrest a demonstrator during massive clashes at the central Athens Syntagma Square.

A protester clashes with a police officer in Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square.

Protestors fight with riot police during massive clashes.

Protestors clash as George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default.

Protestors clash with riot police, June 15, 2011 during a demonstration against new austerity measures.

Protestors shout towards tear gas-throwing riot police during massive clashes at the central Athens Syntagma Square, June 15, 2011.

A demonstrator throws stones at riot police at Syntagma Square in front of the Greek Parliament.

Demonstrators and riot police clash.

A protester armed with a wooden stick stands beside burning barricades in Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square.

Protestors clash as George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default.

BOSNIAN SERB WAR FUGITIVE RITKO MLADIC CAPTURED

In this July 14, 1995, photo, refugee Ferida Osmanovic from Srebrenica is found hanged in a forest outside the UN base at Tuzla airport. The woman, who looked to be in her early 20s, had hanged herself with a torn blanket. More than 10,000 refugees from the UN safe haven of Srebrenica, captured by the Bosian Serbs, arrived in Tuzla. Bosnia Serb commander General Ratko Mladic announced that approximately 40,000 residents had been cleared from their homes in Srebrenica.
On May 26, 2011, notorious war fugitive Ratko Mladic was arrested in a village in northern Serbia. The former Bosnian Serb general is accused of overseeing the worst massacre in Europe since the end of World War II. He was indicted 16 years ago for his role in the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebenica and for war crimes in the four-year siege of Sarajevo that killed 10,000, including 1,500 children. He will face genocide charges in The Hague. The arrest is a reminder of the atrocities that occurred during the Balkan conflict.

Two pictures show Ratko Mladic: Left, in uniform as Bosnian Serb Army chief on Feb. 15, 1994, and, right, during a court appearance in Belgrade on May 27, 2011, hours after his arrest ended a 16-year manhunt for the general accused of masterminding the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.


In a Feb. 4, 1996, file photo, skeletal remains of victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica lie on a hilltop just west of Srebrenica, Bosnia.

In an image from a 1995 file video, a grinning Ratko Mladic pats Bosnian Serb boy Izudin Alic, then 8, on the head and assures him everyone in Srebrenica, Bosnia, would be safe, as other young Bosnian Muslims look on. Hours afterward, some 8,000 men and boys were murdered. Izudin Alic escaped with his life to bear witness to the incident.

In this Feb. 15, 1994, file photo General Ratko Mladic (center) speaks to a Serbian soldier at the Lukavica barracks on the ouskirts of Sarajevo six days before the NATO ultimatum.

In top photo, a disused tank stands at a crossroad in front of a ruined building in the Kovacici district in Sarajevo in February 1996. In bottom photo, people walk along the same road on May 30, 2011. Sarajevo announced plans on May 30 to open a museum of its brutal siege by Bosnian Serb forces, saying the approaching trial of commander Ratko Mladic made it all the more important to display the evidence. The museum will open on the siege's 20th anniversary next year, and organizers said the timing of the announcement, four days after Mladic's capture in Serbia after nearly 16 years evading war crimes charges, was coincidental but fortuitous.

Bosnian refugees from Srebrenica cry over their missing men in the refugee camp at the Tuzla airport in a July 14, 1995, file photo. Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on May 26, 2011, after years on the run from international genocide charges.

International forensic experts examine dozens of bodies in a mass grave in the Serb entity of Pilicer, Bosnia, in a Sept. 18, 1996, file photo. They are believed to be some of the 8,000 missing persons who fled Srebrenica in July 1995. Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on May 26, 2011, after being found in a farmhouse owned by a cousin, a police official said.

In a July 13, 1995, file photo, Dutch UN peacekeepers watch while Muslim refugees from Srebrenica gather in the nearby village of Potocari. Witnesses to slaughter, Dutch troops assigned to protect the Muslims of Srebrenica say they find little relief from the trauma and shame 16 years later, even after the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who overran their unit. Nowhere outside the Balkans did the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have such a profound effect as it did in the Netherlands, which sent ill-prepared troops in blue UN helmets into the Bosnian morass.

Bosnian Serb Army commander General Ratko Mladic is greeted by a French Foreign Legion officer on his arrival at a failed UN-sponsored meeting of the three warring Bosnian parties in this April 12, 1993, file photo. Mladic's arrest on May 26, 2011, after 16 years on the run opens the way for the once-pariah state to seek to join the European Union.

Portraits of Bosnian Muslims, victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, are pasted on the wall in a room where survivors gathered in the Bosnian town of Tuzla in July 7, 2005. Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on May 26, 2011, after 16 years on the run from international genocide charges. Mladic, accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and a brutal 43-month siege of Sarajevo during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, was found in a farmhouse owned by a cousin, a police official said.

Ratko Mladic, wearing a baseball cap, enters court in Belgrade on May 26, 2011. The ruthless Bosnian Serb military leader charged with orchestrating Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, was arrested before dawn at a relative's home in a tiny Serbian village after a 16-year hunt.

A woman holding a portrait of Ratko Mladic reacts during a rally in support of the Bosnian Serb wartime general, in Banja Luka on May 31, 2011. Serbia's war crimes court rejected an appeal against the extradition of Ratko Mladic on Tuesday, opening the way for the former Bosnian Serb general's dispatch to The Hague to stand trial. Mladic is charged with genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.

A group of Bosnian Muslims, refugees from Srebrenica, gather for transport from the eastern Bosnian village of Potocari in a July 13, 1995, file photo.

In this July 12, 1995, photo, the Bosnian Serb Army commander, General Ratko Mladic, (left) drinks a toast with Dutch UN Commander Tom Karremans (second right) while unidentified others look on in the village of Potocari, near Srebrenica.

In this July 17, 1995, file photo, Bosnian refugees cry as their father and husband arrives at the UN air base in Tuzla, Bosnia, after he survived the death march of six days from Srebrenica.

In a June 27, 1992, photo, a man supports the head of a Bosnian woman badly injured by a Serbian mortar shelling in Sarajevo as she is transported in the back of a car to the hospital.

In this Dec. 19, 1994, photo, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (left), former US president Jimmy Carter (center), and Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic sign a declaration proposing a four-month cease-fire in the Bosnian war in Pale, Bosnia. Mladic went on the run since 1995 when he was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for genocide in the slaughter of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes committed by his troops during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

Bosnian Serb Army commander General Ratko Mladic hands out cans of beverages to Bosnian Muslims, refugees from Srebrenica, as they wait to be transported from eastern Bosnian village of Potocari to Muslim held Kladanj near Olovo on July 12, 1995. Mladic, whose long evasion of arrest on genocide charges has blocked Serbia's progress towards the European Union, was arrested in Serbia on May 26, 2011.

In this April 16, 1994, photo, Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic observes Bosnian government forces positions in Gorazde, eastern Bosnia, surrounded by his bodyguards.

In this Aug. 5, 2003, file photo, forensic experts, members of the International Commission on Missing Persons in Bosnia, inspect remains found at a mass grave near the eastern Bosnian village of Memici, 50 miles northeast of Sarajevo.

A Bosnian member of the International Commission for Missing Persons inspects bags with body remains, exhumed from mass graves, which he prepares for the process of DNA identification of the victims from the Bosnian war, in Tuzla, Bosnia, on May 27, 2011. The commission keeps finding Mladic's victims in numerous mass graves, spread around Srebrenica. The bodies are then exhumed, identified through DNA analysis, and returned to the families. Almost all Srebrenica victims get buried then in a memorial center near Srebrenica. This year, another 500 will be laid to rest there.

Ratko Mladic salutes as he makes his first appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal on June 3, 2011, in The Hague, Netherlands, after the former Bosnian Serb Army chief was declared fit to stand trial by a court in Belgrade. Mladic was arrested May 26 after hiding from the law for 16 years. He is charged with atrocities committed during the Bosnian war.