Athens - Hundreds of mask-wearing municipal workers used bulldozers and water hoses to clear the streets of Athens from marble chunks, broken glass and burned barricades on Thursday following five days of rioting and social unrest.

While no major demonstrations were planned Thursday, authorities braced themselves for more civil unrest as tensions remained high over the police shooting of a
15-year-old boy at the weekend.

Two officers involved in the teenager's shooting were taken into custody and charged with manslaughter.

Madrid/Barcelona - Nine people were injured overnight in Spanish demonstrations against the killing of a Greek student in Athens, police said Thursday.

Athens - As dusk settled upon the Greek capital, downtown Athens, the commercial hub normally bustling two weeks before Christmas, was eerily empty of customers.

Instead, amid a sea of broken glass and charred debris, many shops stayed shut, with boarded windows to prevent further damage after days and nights of violence triggered by the shooting death by police of a 15-year-old youth Saturday in the bohemian Athens district of Exarchia.

Workers and shopkeepers wearily attempted to take inventory of their remaining stock, the majority refusing to abandon their businesses fearing they could be be burned or looted in another spree of violence.

Athens - The assassination of his father by Taliban militants forced 13-year-old Jahid to escape his home in Afghanistan.

But his long perilous journey toward asylum in Europe has left him and thousands others trapped for months in a makeshift camp in Greece's western port city of Patras.

Dumbfounded by the government's neglect and the European Union's tough immigration policies, Jahid's future lies in limbo.

Athens  - A Greek court on Wednesday ordered two policemen charged in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy last Saturday to be held in jail until trial.

Athens  - Rioting abated in cities across Greece early Wednesday as the country braced for strikes.

According to state radio, Tuesday night was the most quiet since the outbreak of the unrest after a fatal police shooting of a teenager on Saturday.

"We had no incidents since 2 am," police said.

The situation also calmed down in the northern city Thessaloniki and the port town Patras, that had been heavily affected by the rioting.