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The Greek government has submitted new proposals to secure a third bailout from itsinternational creditors. The Head of the Eurozone's Group of Finance Ministers, JeroenDijsselbloem, said the plans would now be assessed in detail. The proposals include tax rises,pension reforms, spending cuts and promises of privatisation. Tim Willcox in Athens says thismay cause problems for the Greek government.
“They think, the source I've been speaking to, that the E.U. will take this, but it's going to bevery difficult for Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister, internally here in Greece, following thatreferendum last weekend with that massive vote, a NO vote against any more austeritymeasures.”
International negotiators striving for a deal on Iran's nuclear programme say they are preparedto work beyond another looming deadline, but the time is not unlimited. The U.S. Secretary ofState, John Kerry, said the negotiations would not be rushed, but could not wait forever.Barbara Plett Usher is at the talks in Vienna.
“Diplomats have been hoping to reach an agreement by the end of the day. Because otherwise,the U.S. Congress will get twice as long to review any deal, sixty days instead of thirty. But Mr.Kerry told the press that negotiators would not rush because the clock strikes at midnight. Hesaid they were focused on achieving an agreement that stood the test of time and despiteprogress, some difficult issues still remained. However, he said President Obama had made itclear the process was not open-ended, and he was prepared to call an end to it, if toughdecisions were not taken.”
The United Nations has announced that an unconditional humanitarian truce in Yemen willstart on Friday night and last until the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan. It called on allparties in the conflict to respect the ceasefire and allow aid to reach all vulnerable Yemenis.The U.N. has warned that millions are at risk of famine.
The former Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, has died, just months after he wasreplaced after forty years in the post. He was seventy-five. As the world's longest-servingforeign minister, Prince Saud became a well-known figure on the international stage, navigatingthrough decades of turbulence in the Middle East.
The Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, has signed into law the bill to remove theConfederate Flag from the State Capital grounds. The Flag, used by the slave-owning statesduring the Civil War, had always been controversial. The demands for it to be taken downbecame stronger after the killing of nine black church-goers in Charleston by a gunman who hadposed with Confederate Flags. Governor Haley said the Flag will be removed on Friday.
“Tomorrow morning, at ten a.m., we'll see the Confederate Flag come down. We are a statethat believes in tradition. We are a state that believes in history. We are a state that believes inrespect. So we will bring it down with dignity, and we will make sure that it's put in a rightfulplace.”
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The U.S. Office for Personnel Management has concluded that the social security numbers ofmore than twenty million people were stolen in a recent data breach. It had alreadyannounced that data on four point two million current and former federal governmentemployees had been taken. Those who now known to have been affected by the hack includepeople who had applied for a government job, federal contractors, as well as over a million oftheir partners.
An American general in line for the U.S. military's top job has told his confirmation hearingthat Russia poses the greatest threat to U.S. security. Marine General Joseph Dunford calledRussia's recent actions in Ukraine nothing short of alarming. Tom Bateman reports fromWashington.
“General Joseph Dunford appeared before the Senate Arms Services Committee, ahead of hisexpected confirmation as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. He described Russia as anation that could pose an existential threat to the U.S., saying its behaviour was nothingshort of alarming and that it poses the greatest threat to America's national security. Asked ifthe U.S. should provide lethal arms to Ukraine, he said it would be reasonable from a militarystandpoint. The White House said the comments did not reflect the view of President Obama'sNational Security Team.”
Pope Francis chose to change in a fast food restaurant in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, beforeleading an open-air mass before an audience of hundreds of thousands. The famouslyunpretentious Pope used his address to encourage Bolivian Catholics to rejectconsumerism.
New research suggests that climate change has played a major part in the decline ofbumblebees in recent decades. Scientists say global warming has shrunk the ranges of theinsects in both North America and Europe. They found that bumblebees have left the warmest,more southernly parts of their ranges, but haven't been able to move to cooler areas furthernorth.
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