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By Lefteris Papadimas and Paul Taylor ATHENS/GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will resume talks with euro zone lenders in Brussels next week after telling parliament he rejected the creditors’ “absurd” terms for a cash-for-reform deal to keep his country from default. The unresolved Greek debt impasse, which is weighing on financial markets and could hit global economic recovery, will hang over a Group of Seven leaders’
By Megha Rajagopalan and Joseph Campbell JIANLI, China (Reuters) – The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River jumped to 396 on Saturday, leaving fewer than 50 still missing, as the boat operator apologized and said it would cooperate with investigations. State television showed pictures of workers clad in protective gear and wearing masks prizing open doors with crowbars and using
By J.R. Wu KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan’s coast guard on Saturday commissioned its biggest ships for duty in the form of two 3,000-ton patrol vessels, as the island boosts defenses amid concerns about China’s growing footprint in the disputed South China Sea. The new vessels will be able to dock at a new port being constructed on Taiping Island, the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the
By Noah Browning and Mohammed Ghobari DUBAI/SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s dominant Houthi group and its army allies fired a Scud missile at Saudi Arabia which the kingdom says it shot down on Saturday, in a major escalation of two months of war. The area is home to the largest air force base in southern Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, but there are no oil facilities in the vicinity.
By Humeyra Pamuk and Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish Kurds gathered on Saturday to mourn and protest at the scene of bomb blasts that killed two people and wounded more than 200 at an election rally, with many voicing anger at President Tayyip Erdogan a day before parliamentary polls. The two explosions, which Erdogan termed a “provocation” designed to undermine Sunday’s election, tore through a rally of the
The physical motion of running manhandles your intestines (and whatever’s in them) for a prolonged period of time.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators packed the German Alpine resort town on Saturday, protesting over a wide range of causes before the arrival of the leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies for a two-day summit.
By Morag MacKinnon PERTH (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a weapon and are recruiting highly trained technicians in a serious bid to develop chemical weapons, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned. In a speech to an international forum of nations that works to fight the spread of such weapons, Bishop said the rise of militant groups such as ISIS, also known as Daish, posed “one of
PARIS (AP) — Overcoming a mid-match lull and a third-set deficit, Serena Williams won her third French Open title and 20th major singles trophy by beating 13th-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 on Saturday.
Hurricane Blanca gained strength Saturday to reach Category 3 as it headed toward Mexico’s northwest, forecasters said, though they added it could weaken before arriving on the southern end of the Baja California peninsula. Mexico’s national weather service said Blanca was moving at 19 kilometers (12 miles) per hour. After briefly weakening Friday, the storm was packing powerful sustained winds of 195 kilometers (120 miles) per hour with gusts up
