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Protest in Rome turns violent
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Police fired tear gas and made a number of arrests in Rome on Saturday as an anti-government protest turned violent, leaving several injured, according to medics and an AFP photographer.
Hooded protesters hurled rocks and firecrackers at police, causing some 20 injuries to officers, according to authorities.
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Flag-waving protesters shouted slogans against government employment reform plans, and carried banners reading "housing, income, dignity", and "you can call us NEET", the English acronym for people not in education, employment, or training.
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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who came to power in February, has put forward an ambitious economic reform programme which will see public spending reduced by 4.5 billion euros ($6.2 billion).
With the country's unemployment rate reaching a record 13 percent in February, he says reforms are a "precondition for economic recovery".
He said last week that changes were needed because in Italy "there are those who have taken much, too much over the years, and it is time they give some back".
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SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-hurt-an...183924839.html
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