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RIOTS broke out in Athens on Thursday night as parliament surrendered to new EU austerity demands.
All 153 MPs in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syrizaled coalition voted in favour of the measures, which include further pension cuts and lowering of the threshold at which income tax becomes payable.
All 128 opposition MPs present in the 300-seat parliament opposed the legislation in a vote just before midnight.
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