Putin welcomes BRICS leaders amid standoff with WestRussian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the leaders of emerging powers for a summit Moscow hopes will show it not isolated despite the standoff with the West over Ukraine.
09 July 2015
Nazarbayev predicts rapprochement between EEU and EUPresident of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev is sure rapprochement between the Eurasian Economic Union of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan and and the 28-nation European Union is going to take place.
09 July 2015
Putin hosts BRICS summit amid standoff with WestRussian President Vladimir Putin is to meet world leaders including China's Xi Jingping and India's Narendra Modi ahead of the start of a summit of the BRICS emerging economies.
08 July 2015
Madrid's mantra: Spain is not GreeceGreece's economic turbulence is dominating political debate in Spain ahead of a year-end general election, with the ruling conservatives pointing to Syriza's difficulties to discredit its Spanish ally Podemos.
08 July 2015
Russian economic winds blow cold in Chinese border townThe warmth of the friendship between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin does little to counter the bitter economic winds blowing through their shared border.
08 July 2015
Clinton blames Republican 'attacks' for image slumpHillary Clinton accused Republicans of waging a "constant barrage of attacks" on her and blamed them for whipping up doubts about her trustworthiness over an email scandal.
08 July 2015
Obama, Vietnam party boss hold landmark Oval Office talksUS President Barack Obama welcomed the leader of Vietnam's Communist Party to the White House for historic but "candid" talks marking two decades of rapprochement between the former enemies.
08 July 2015
Merkel: 'still no basis' for talks on new Greek bailoutGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said that there was still no basis for talks on a new Greek bailout, as she arrived in Brussels for an emergency summit of eurozone leaders.
EU's Juncker wants 'to avoid Grexit'European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said he was against an exit by Greece from the euro, even though Greeks massively rejected bailout terms in a referendum this weekend.
07 July 2015
IMF 'ready to assist Greece if requested': LagardeInternational Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said that the global crisis lender would assist Greece if asked, a day after Greek voters rejected a prior bailout plan.
UN watchdog in Iran for 'intense' nuclear talksThe UN's atomic watchdog and Iran held "intense discussions" in Tehran about the possible military dimensions of the country's nuclear programme.
07 July 2015
Merkel, Hollande hold talks in Paris on Greek referendumGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived for a meeting with French President Francois Hollande to take stock of Greece's resounding rejection of its international creditor's bailout proposals in a referendum.
07 July 2015
Burundi president misses key regional crisis summitBurundi's president skipped regional talks Monday aimed at brokering a deal to end weeks of unrest in the country, choosing instead to campaign for his controversial third term.
06 July 2015
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece's 'erratic Marxist'Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's finance minister resigned despite the government having secured a resounding victory in a weekend referendum.
Kerry says 'now the time' to finish Iran nuclear dealUS Secretary of State John Kerry said that "it is now time" to finalise a historic nuclear deal with Iran, on a ninth day of talks in Vienna between Tehran and major powers.