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Hello, I am Jerry Smit with the BBC news.
Euro zone leaders have given the Greek governmentuntil Thursday to present new proposals on finding away out of its debt crisis. The German chancellorAngela Merkel told a news conference in Brusselsthat the proposals would be put forward for European Union summit on Sunday. The presidentof the European Council Donald Tusk said it was the final deadline, and perhaps the mostcritical moment in the EU’s history.
“The situation is really critical, and unfortunately, we can’t exclude this black scenario. I meanno agreement until Sunday. It means, of course, that we need to discuss also theconsequences for the whole European Union, not only for the Euro zone.”
The president of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker said the EU had prepared forevery outcome including a possible Greek exit from the single currency. The Greek PrimeMinister Alexis Tsipras said he would submit detail proposals in the next few days.
“A discussion has put place in a positive mood. From now on, the process will be quick veryfast. It would start in the next hours with the aim of reaching an agreement by Sunday at thelatest.”
President Obama has held talks at the White House with the head of the VietnameseCommunist Party Nguyen Phu Trong, the first such meeting since the two countries normalizedrelations 20 years ago. This month marks 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War. FromWashington, here is Aleem Maqbool.
“At the White House President Obama talked of the progress that has been made in US Vietnamrelationships after what he politely called a difficult history. General Nguyen Phu Trong said sucha meeting would be unimaginable in the past.
Indeed the two leaders have come together partly to celebrate 20 years since President Clintonannounced the beginning of the normalization of relations, ties were cut following theVietnam War. But there are those who expressed their discomfort at the thought of leader ofthe single-party communist state being fitted here.
Two deadly car bombs have exploded in Yemen, at least 4 people were killed and many injuredin an explosion in the southern city of Al Ghaydah. In the capital Sanaa, a car bomb went offoutside a Shiite mosque killing at least 1 person and wounding 5.
Spanish police have arrested a woman in the Canary Islands on suspicion of recruitingadolescent girls to travel to Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State militants. Spanishofficials say once the girls reach Syria, they were sexually exploited and made to carry outdomestic and hospital work.
The world’s largest Cruise shipping company Carnival Corp says it has received approval fromUS government to offer trips to Cuba from Miami. The company said it was still seekingclearance from the Cuban government.
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The Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has approved a bailout of more than 2 billion dollarsto help the country’s bankrupt states. Hundreds of thousands of state employees have notbeen paid for months. The money will come from the state-owned natural gas company.
A plan vote on a draft UN resolution to mark the 20th anniversary of the mass killings in theBosnian town of Srebrenica has been delayed until Wednesday after Russia threatened to useits veto. Eight thousand Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces who overranthe UN protected town. Nick Bryant reports from UN in New York.
“To mark the 20th anniversary the Srebrenica massacre, the British drafted a resolution thatwould be the first United Nation's text to formally recognize the killings as a crime of genocide.But its run-up against fierce opposition from Russia. The Russian’s described the British draftas divisive and circulate its own term form of words, which doesn’t mention Srebrenica orgenocide. Moscow has come under strong pressure from the Serbian government which hascalled the British draft unbalanced, unnecessary, and detrimental to Bosnia’s fragile peaceprocess.”
The FBI and US has appealed more than 250 victims of online pedophile to come forward toreceive counselling. Using various personas, the 26-year old predator Lucas Chansler posed asa 15-year old boy to get teenage girls to expose their breast from webcam and thenblackmailed them into sending him more explicit images. He has been sentenced to more than100 years in jail.
The newly elected left-wing council in the Spanish capital Madrid has announced plans tochange the names of dozens of streets which pay tribute to the former military leader GeneralFrancisco Franco. In the past, there has been stiff resistance from the political right to theremoval of the symbols related to General Franco’s rule.
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