Tens of thousands of Greeks rioted in the streets of Athens, Greece Wednesday while much of the country went on a 24-hour strike against government austerity measures. A small group of youths threw Molotov cocktails at police, who responded with tear gas. However, the 20,000 people who filed through downtown Athens—a relatively large crowd for a Greek strike—mostly limited themselves to chanting anti-government slogans.

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal EUROPE Nationwide Strike Paralyzes Greece

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping to prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged yesterday.

His code name with Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, was ‘Green Prince’. The son of the Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence almost daily from 1996.

Mosab has written a book that has revealed his years as a spy that has Shin Bet worried for revelations about their operations.

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