Rallies in Athens, Europe ahead of bailout talks

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Tens of thousands of people joined rallies in Greece on Sunday ahead of talks in Brussels on the new leftist government's bid to revise its massive bailout. Supporters also gathered in several European capitals on the eve of the meeting of eurozone finance ministers to join Greece in calling for a radical revision of the Europe's austerity policies. The rally outside the parliament in Athens drew some 20,000 people, police said, who cheered as a demonstrator swooped through the crowds wearing a large papier-mache yellow plane, with "Greece is taking off" written on its side. A protester wearing a mask of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and wielding a large plastic needle with "austerity" daubed on it jousted with a fake Greek premier Alexis Tsipras armed with a huge pair of red scissors.

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