Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has vowed to present "credible" reform plans before a Thursday deadline set by exasperated European leaders, as Athens formally asked for a new bailout to avoid crashing out of the euro.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York - Russia has vetoed a draft UN resolution recognising the Srebrenica massacre as genocide, branding the measure "confrontational" and a setback to reconciliation in the Balkans.
NEW YORK, July 8 AFP - The New York Stock Exchange halted trading Wednesday for more than three hours due to technical problems that it said were not caused by hacking.
LONDON - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a nuclear deal with Western powers is "within reach" and could open the way to joint action against extremism, as talks continued in Vienna.
ROME - A court in Naples has sentenced former Italian premier and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi to three years in prison for bribing a senator as part of a plot to destabilise a 2006-08 centre-left government.
SEMARANG, Indonesia - Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao says he will visit a Filipina on death row in Indonesia on Friday and also plans to raise her case with President Joko Widodo.
