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Euro Zone finance ministers have decided to break off talks with Greece over a possible new bailout until after a referendum on Sunday. The Greek Finance Minister Yanis Vourovakis called the decision "blackmail" and said this was a very dark moment for Europe. But the European Central Bank will maintain emergency liquidity funding for Greek banks. Damian Grammaticas reports from Brussels.
"Vowing a major change of heart by Greece, it now seems highly unlikely that any deal can be done with its Euro area partners to avert the referendum on Sunday. European finance ministers said they saw no grounds at this point to extend Greece's old loan programme which expired on Tuesday or to discuss terms for massive new bailout."
Reports say Greece's tourism industry, one of the largest and most profitable sector of its troubled economy, is already being affected by economy crisis. A senior Greek travel industry official has said that the hotel bookings are down by about 50,000 a day. He said the blow was expected to have a knock-on effect in employment in the country if the trend continues.
Dozens of combatants have been killed in heavy fighting between Egyptian security forces and Islamic State militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Intense clashes continued for hours around the town of Sheikh Zuweid with government forces deploying fighter jets and attack helicopters. Mohammad Y has more.
"It was started a bit under 12 hours ago with the IS-affiliated members or militants firing xx, using rocket-prepared grenades, suicide car bombs, attacking simultaneous outburst in vicinty position at the same time,and even anticipating where the help would come and xx trapping and bomb-dropping the road where the help would come, so that they wouldn't be able to supply them."
President Obama has formally announced plans for the United States and Cuba to reopen embassies in their respective capital cities, 54 years after they closed. Mr Obama said engagement with Cuba was the best way to advance the interest of the United States and ensure support for democracy in human rights. It's the latest step in the process of foreign relations, as Will Grands reports.
"XX pressing the reset button on five decades of bad feeling and distress takes time. Among the difficulties on the US side were human rights issues, questions of the freedom of movement for diplomats and issues security around the embassy building. For the Cubans, the lack of normal banking arrangement delayed any possibility of reopening their embassy, as well as ongoing arguments over the US's economic embargo on the island and US naval base Guantanamo Bay."
The Dominican republic said it will cooperate fully with an investigation into its migration policies. A team from the organization of American state is to visite the country, following the departure of thousands of people over the past two weeks.
World news from BBC.
Nicholas Winton, a British humanitarian who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the holocaust, has died at the age of 106. Born to German Jewish parents, he was in Nazi-occupied Prague in 1938 when he realized the Jews in Czechoslovakia would be sent to concentration camps. Almost single-handedly, he found homes in Britain for Jewish children and arranged their safe passage by train, an operation known as "the Winton Transport".
Austrian scientists say they've developed a method for determining the exact time of death of a person accurate for up to ten days. Victoria K reports.
"At the scene of a possible murder, forensic investigators can pinpoint the time of death only if it was one or two days earlier. The somewhat grisly problem is that once a body has cooled down, there's no accurate measure. But this University of S team took samples of muscle tissue from dead pigs and found the proteins broke down in a reliable constant and trackable way. This gave a chemical signature of the age of a body in hours for up to ten days after death."
A Saudi Arabian billionaire, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has pledged 32 billion dollars to charity over the coming years. Prince Alwaleed is a flamboyant businessman and an outspoken xx in his home country. He said his pledge had been inspired by Bill Gates and his chargeable foundation. The money, he said, will promote diseases radication, disaster-relief and women's rights.
The Brazilian Football Confederation is setting up a council of formal national team coaches to try to improve the team’s performances. The move follows a series of disappointing results from last year humiliating World Cup exit to last week's defeat to the Copa America. A confederation official said they wanted to complete diagnosis of Brazil’s failings and with them devise a plan of action to ensure that the team could again challenge for honors.
BBC news.