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Greece minister enters lions’ den
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis headed for a showdown with euro zone finance ministers yesterday after his new leftist-led government won a parliamentary confidence vote for its refusal to extend an international bailout. ||| Costas Pitas and Alastair Macdonald Athens and BrusselsGreek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis yesterday began...
Asia’s stocks fall as Greek uncertainty saps confidence
Asian stocks and the euro fell on Thursday as markets erred on the side of caution over the ongoing Greek debt negotiations. ||| Tokyo – Asian stocks and the euro fell on Thursday as markets erred on the side of caution over the ongoing Greek debt negotiations amid conflicting headlines on progress in the talks. MSCI’s broadest index...
Greece, euro zone fail to agree on debt
Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to agree on a way forward after seven hours of talks. ||| Brussels – Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to agree on a way forward on the country’s unpopular bailout and will try again on Monday, with time running out...
Watch this huge explosion in Ukraine
An explosion rocked the city of Donetsk, Ukraine this week, with the massive fireball being caught on camera as well. …read more Source:...
Ukraine peace summit overshadowed by surge in fighting
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine were due to attend a peace summit on Wednesday, with Ukraine’s pro-Moscow separatists tightening the pressure on Kiev by launching some of the war’s worst fighting in an assault on a government garrison. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine PM hopes IMF talks will be successfully completed within 48 hours
Ukraine and a team from the International Monetary Fund could reach an agreement on further financial aid for the country’s war-battered economy in …read more Source: The New...
Fighting in Ukraine ahead of talks
Shelling rocked a bus station in Donetsk as fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine ahead of crucial peace talks. ||| Donetsk – Shelling rocked a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday as fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine ahead of crucial peace talks later in the day.Rebel officials said that five...
News24.com | Ukraine fighting kills 45 ahead of peace summit
Fighting in Ukraine has killed at least 45 people in the last 24 hours, Kiev officials and rebel authorities say, ahead of a four-way summit in Minsk to thrash out a peace deal. …read more Source:...
World leaders hope to secure Ukrainian peace deal
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine hope to strike a peace deal and end 10 months of fighting in which at least 5 300 people have died. …read more Source: Mail &...
Attacks threaten Ukraine peace talks
Desperate four-way peace talks in Minsk appeared increasingly doomed to failure after fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine. ||| Kiev – Desperate four-way peace talks planned for Wednesday in Minsk appeared increasingly doomed to failure on Tuesday night after fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine. Early in the morning, reports emerged...
