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Jim Lee with the BBC news.
Members of the Greek Parliament have been meeting through the night ahead of a vote on a third international bailout. The finance minister U has warned unless MPs backed the deal within hours of meeting the Euro zone ministers later today, will be unable to give its approval. The opposition accused him of being provocative, from Athens Paul Adams.
The Prime Minister Alex says he is confident of winning the vote when it finally happens, but he may pay a price. Members of his own party are threatening to break away, and has already talked fresh elections in the autumn, by then he will have to implement some of the bailouts tough reforms. He’ll be hoping that in return Greece's creditors will finally agree to do something to ease the country’s appalling burden of debt.
The Greek authority is sending a cruise liner to the island of C to hosue some of the thousands of migrants who have arrived there from the Middle East and North Africa. The ship will provide temporary shelter for up to two and a half thousand people. Migrants will be able to register on the ship and apply for travel documents for other parts of Europe.
Investigators in China are still trying to determine the cause of huge explosions at a warehouse in the poor city of Tianjin. A team of more than 200 chemical experts has been sent in to advise firefighters. There are reports that large quantities of sodium cyanide are stored at the site.
The explosions killed at least 50 people and injured hundreds more. Our China bureau editor Joe says fires are continuing to burn, some 36 hours after the blasts. The smoke is still being generated and they need to deal with that, so basically the specialists are demolishing the area and meantime the local government saying that pollution levels are not anything out of the ordinary at the moment, trying to reassure people.
Officials in the United States are investigating reports that the Islamic State militants group used chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, from Washington, Laura reports.
The United States National Security Council says they are treating the allegations very seriously, a defence official told the BBC it was plausible that mustard gas been used against Kurdish forces in the north of Iraq. Earlier this week Kurdish officials said 65 fighters had suffered breathing difficulties after being attacked by Islamic State militants. Mustard gas is a banned chemical weapon and can cause blisters, blindness and respiratory problems.
Doctors in Paraguay say an 11-year-girl who gave birth after being denied to abortion is doing well. The baby was delivered by Caesarian section. It is a case which has caused an international outcry as well as intense debate in Paraguay where abortion is illegal unless the mother's life is at risk. The girl’s stepfather has been charged with rape.
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An attempt of the Guatemala congress to strict president Otto Perez Molina of his immunity from prosecution in the wake of a corruption scandal has failed. There were 88 votes in favour of the motion, 17 fewer than needed. The Supreme Court gave the go ahead in June for an investigation into claims that businessmen paid millions of dollars in bribes to Guata mala officials to avoid import duties.
An Indonesian court has overturned convictions against two teachers at an international school who was sentenced to 10 years for sexually abusing pupils. A Canadian teacher and an Indonesian teaching assistant were jailed in April. The pair maintained their innocent in the the case that was said to be fraught with irregularities. Their lawyers said there was no proof for the charges against them, and they would be freed.
Scientists have been analysing data produced by space craft which has for the first time, followed a comet at its closest point to the sun. The European Space Agency said the R craft have achieved a fantastic milestone after travelling alongside the comet for 750 million km. Picture shows the comet trailing water and dust as it hurtles to the hottest point of its orbit. Professor Monica G is part of the project team. We have never been this close to a comet when it is at it closest point to the sun, we have never learnt this sort of information before. It is absolutely amazing. The images, the data, the gas, the dust, the tail, the surface are wonderful.
The United States has handed the stolen Picasso painting to French officials 9 months after it was found in a package labeled as a handicraft worth about 30 dollars. The painting called L, so the hairdresser, is valued at 15 million dollars, it was discovered by customs officials in a shipment from Belgium to New Jersey. The painting, dating from Picassos cubist period, vanished from the archives of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris more than a decade ago.
加索立体画派时期，大约在十年前在巴黎蓬皮杜展览中心丢失。
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