Syriza can't use Germany's 1953 debt restructuring as a precedent for its debt relief demand."

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The Greek financial stabilitycouncil has recommended keeping automated teller machines (ATMs)shut on Monday and limiting withdrawals to 60 euros a day oncethey reopen on Tuesday, a source who took

The now embattled Tsipras government has decided to implement a a bank holiday … all of next week!
Under that decision, the next open day for banks will be Monday, July 6, a day after an unprecedented call for a referendum. The government said the decision came after a request by the Bank of Greece.

According to reports, the bank holiday will last throughout the week, with the maximum daily withdrawal reportedly set at a … princely 60 euros.

ATHENS — In an ominous sign Sunday that Greece is speeding toward a banking collapse, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced that Greek banks will be closed Monday amid last-ditch discussions about his nation’s economic future.

The existence of the approximately 14,000 photographs will probably cause yet another delay in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as attorneys for the defendants demand that all the images be turned over and the government wades through the material to decide what it thinks is relevant to the proceedings.

Attackers carrying Islamist flags ram a building with a car before a man was decapitated and his severed head put on a fence.

The world's economic line-up is going to be a bit different by 2050.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in London today released its long-term macroeconomic forecasts with key trends from now to 2050.

Finance ministers fail to reach agreement over Greece’s bailout, with some blaming mix-up over Athens latest proposals

U.S. stock futures gain, fueled by hopes Greece and its lenders will reach a reform deal on Monday, potentially saving the debt-laden country from default.

An apartment block in Malmö has been evacuated because of a suspected grenade attack in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to police.

Historically, all periods of economic reforms in Russia since the '70s overlapped with times of low oil prices. As Russia's economy has been badly bruised this year in part due to a prolonged plunge in oil prices, BAML analysts believe it is not unlikely that "market-friendly" reforms are possible.

Nobody does. Every shifting deadline, every last-gasp effort has built up to this: a nation that went to sleep on Friday not knowing what Monday will bring. A deal, or more brinkmanship. Shuttered banks and empty cash machines, or a few more days of euros in their pockets and drachmas in their past - - and maybe their future.

Last night in Luxembourg, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis launched a broadside against the Bank of Greece, accusing it of encouraging liquidity fears in an “astonishing” fashion. Earlier this week, the parliamentary speaker refused to accept the central bank’s annual monetary policy report, which urged a deal with creditors, instead releasing a document arguing that “odious” debts shouldn’t be repaid.

Fair? Yes. Confusing? Most certainly. But nobody ever said the unwind and collapse of massive, "political capital"-funded artificial monetary regimes is logical, calm and collected...

The one most recurring laments coming out of peripheral European countries which boast near record youth unemployment, in most cases around the 50% area, is that the only reason why there is no growth is due to "evil austerity", imposed upon them by Germany and other frugal Northern Europe overseerers, who do not permit the rampant issuance of debt to fund domestic spending and fiscual stimulus pr

Google has failed in its efforts to overturn a worldwide site-blocking order handed down by a Canadian court in 2014. The British Columbia Court of Appeal found that despite not being a party to the case, Google must block a range of websites from its worldwide search results due to its business presence in the country.

Iceland’s finance minister has announced a 39 per cent tax on investors looking to take their money overseas.The country has imposed the tax to prevent it hemorrhaging money as it loosens bank laws imposed six years ago, when Iceland made the shocking decision to let its banks go bust.

Kaspersky says the attackers became entrenched in its networks some time last year.

Justice Department’s national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on

Yuan to be used for Sino-Russia oil trade

On August 11, 2014, Dillon Taylor walked out of a local Salt Lake City, Utah, convenience store minding his own business. He wasn't armed. He wasn't committing a crime. He was listening to music on his headphones, probably in his own world.

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Greece tells the International Monetary Fund it will delay Friday's €300m (£216m) debt repayment and bundle all four of its June payments together.

A selfie posted online by a member of the Islamic State group just cost the terror organization a headquarters building in Syria.

At 9:30 a.m. on a sunny weekday, the phones at Candelia, a purveyor of sleek office furniture in Lille, France, rang steadily with orders from customers across the country and from Switzerland and Germany. A photocopier clacked rhythmically while more than a dozen workers processed sales, dealt with suppliers and arranged for desks and chairs to be shipped.

Parece que + SourceForge hizo cargo del control de la 'GIMP para Windows' cuenta y ahora está distribuyendo un instalador de GIMP anuncios habilitados. También bloquean propietario original de la cuenta, Jernej Simoncic, que ha estado construyendo las versiones de Windows de GIMP para nuestro proyecto durante años.

Back in February, when the Venezuelan government introduced its official and complicated three-tier exchange rate, 190 bolivars bought you one U.S. dollar on the black market—which is where real people without government connections shop for hard currency in Caracas.

The first rule of “Project Bookend” is that you don’t talk about “Project Bookend.” In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been “you don’t accidentally e-mail ‘Project Bookend’ to a news agency.”

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Saudi Arabia had made the “strategic decision” to purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan amid the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, a former American defense official said in a report published today in The Sunday Times.

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Spain became the first casualty of beefed up EU rules on statistics after the European Commission recommended the country be fined €19 million for misreporting of deficit data by the region of Valencia.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis acknowledged that a deal to ease Greece's cash crunch was not likely at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers later on Monday despite progress in

A total of 1,000 robots would be introduced at the factory initially, run by Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co, with the aim of reducing the current workforce of 1,800 by 90 per cent to only about 200, Chen Xingqi, the chairman of the company’s board, was quoted as saying in the report.

Last week it was announced that there are now more independent record shops in the UK than at any point in the last five years. For shops to survive in the age of Amazon, it’s been well documented that in-stores, coffee, exclusive events and (whisper it) Record Store Day have become invaluable promotional tools to get people through the doors. Perversely, the internet has been equally influential in spreading the word and getting people off their computers and back among the racks.

VIENNA, April 23 (Reuters) - The home province of defunctlender Hypo Alpe Adria, Carinthia, is asking Vienna forfinancial support, saying it will run out of money by thebeginning of June without external

How did a kid from Hounslow grow up to cause a crash?

ATHENS, April 22 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank willcontinue to provide liquidity to Greece's banks as long as theyremain solvent and have sufficient collateral, ECB ExecutiveBoard Member Benoit

The Greek government is forcing the transfer of public sector money to the central bank so it can pay pensions and salaries as the impasse with its international creditors continues.

The extent of debate and acrimony that broke out within the project last year over the decision to adopt systemd as the default init system for the next release, Jessie, would have taxed the patience of even the most suave diplomat.

Yet Nussbaum (seen above addressing the annual Debconf last year) has come through the whole thing unscathed and, as he gets set to vacate the post -- the new leader, to be elected over the first fortnight of April, will take over on April 17 -- can even see some positives in the whole process.

At least one Spanish bank, Bankinter SA, the country’s seventh-largest lender by market value, has been paying some customers interest on mortgages by deducting that amount from the principal the borrower owes.

Venezuela’s product shortages have become so severe that some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap, a

'We are a Left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the
IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,' says senior Greek
official

EU milk quotas are scrapped, bringing an end to more than 30 years of efforts to prevent overproduction.

Theranos is seeking FDA approval for an Ebola test that could provide early detection, board member George Shultz said Friday. Theranos' CEO wants patients to have more rights to their own health information to encourage proactive medical care.

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Egyptian military and security officials told The Associated Press that the military intervention will go further, with a ground assault into Yemen by Egyptian, Saudi and other forces, planned once airstrikes have weakened the capabilities of the rebels, known as Houthis, and their allies, military forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Spain’s economy keeps accelerating and may grow 0.8% in the first quarter of this year from the last quarter of 2014, as lower consumer prices drive internal demand, the country’s central bank said Thursday.