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Greek PM seeks parliament's backing for new EU debt talks Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will on Friday ask lawmakers to endorse his new plans to save the country from financial collapse.
10 July 2015 15:11
Russia poses 'greatest threat' to US national security: Dunford Russia now poses the greatest threat to US national security and its behavior is "nothing short of alarming," Marine General Joseph Dunford said.
10 July 2015 12:32
Kerry says prepared to 'call end' to Iran talks US Secretary of State John Kerry said he was prepared to "call an end" to nuclear talks with Iran if "tough decisions" are not made.
10 July 2015 11:44
Merkel urges Bosnia to work for future without 'genocide' Germany urged Bosnia to work towards a future in which a "genocide" such as the massacre of Muslims 20 years ago would no longer be possible.
10 July 2015 10:38
Erdogan asks Turkey PM to form new government Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form the next government, over a month after elections where the ruling party lost its overall majority.
10 July 2015 10:14
India has a lot to learn from Kazakhstan despite its size: Indian PM Narendra Modi Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has had a meeting with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, who arrived on his first official visit to Kazakhstan at the invitation of the Kazakh leader.
09 July 2015 14:56
History will prove me right over security bills: Japan PM Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed his push to beef up Japan's military in the face of public and parliamentary opposition would be vindicated by history.
09 July 2015 13:51
Lagarde: A new Greece program needs debt restructure International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said that a new program to prop up Greece's finances would require creditors to restructure debt.
09 July 2015 12:34
Serbia hails Russia's UN veto on Srebrenica but victims angry Serbia hailed Russia's veto on a draft UN Security Council resolution recognising the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as a genocide.
09 July 2015 12:03
EU to help Balkan countries struggling with migrant wave: Merkel The European Union will help Hungary and western Balkan countries struggling with an influx of migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
09 July 2015 10:59
Tunisia fears new 'terrorist attacks': PM Tunisia fears more potentially destabilising "terrorist attacks," like the one that killed 38 foreign tourists last month, which is why it has imposed a state of emergency.
09 July 2015 10:50
Iran's Zarif urges joint action against extremism Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a nuclear deal with Western powers was "within reach" and could open the way to joint action against extremism.
09 July 2015 10:34
Putin welcomes BRICS leaders amid standoff with West Russian 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 10:25
Nazarbayev predicts rapprochement between EEU and EU President 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 00:59
Putin hosts BRICS summit amid standoff with West Russian 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 21:19
Madrid's mantra: Spain is not Greece Greece'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 14:12
Russian economic winds blow cold in Chinese border town The 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 14:04
Clinton blames Republican 'attacks' for image slump Hillary 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 12:11
Obama, Vietnam party boss hold landmark Oval Office talks US 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 11:47
Merkel: 'still no basis' for talks on new Greek bailout German 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.
08 July 2015 10:35
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