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The rumored sale could fetch as much as $1.6 billion for the pink British daily, according to a Bloomberg report, which cited anonymous sources.

The move is likely to target mid-level and back-end staff to achieve maximum savings, according to reports.

The "Alliance for Progress and Renewal" opposes the German government's agreement to financial rescues for Greece and other euro zone countries.

French President François Hollande said an elected parliament for the countries that use the euro might cure what ails Europe.

Hungary has begun constructing a razor-wire border fence, aimed at stemming a tide of migrants, newly wary of attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

Only a tiny fraction of the Germans polled offer unqualified support for the deal with Greece, and many say they would have preferred a so-called Grexit.

Germany’s finance minister said Chancellor Merkel’s more flexible stance on Greece is “part of democracy.”

After capital controls were imposed on Greece's banking system, supplies of imported dietary supplements to feed 2,200 animals are under threat.

As Germany and the European Union made advances toward finalizing the Greek bailout, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras cleaned house.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has said debt relief for Greece violates EU law. But international finance experts say that's an exaggeration.

Athens faces more steps before a deal can be finalized with international creditors.

Egypt has arrested more than 600 Egyptian and Sudanese people in the past month for trying to emigrate illegally.

Asked if the proposed bailout deal was viable, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, told an interviewer, "The response is quite categorical: No." 

The issue of debt relief for Greece is "uncontroversial," Mario Draghi, chief of the European Central bank, said on Thursday.

"[I]f we were to say you can all come ... we just can’t manage it," the German chancellor told a Palestinian girl.

Mario Draghi said the European Central Bank "continues to act on the assumption that Greece is and will remain a member of the euro area."

Greece agreed to a bailout deal that would see punishing austerity measures imposed on it, but calls are growing for more debt relief.

After the IMF's shock move this week in calling for Greece to be given a write-down on its "highly unsustainable debt," Germany unexpectedly finds itself under pressure.

After scores of Syriza MPs voted against the government-backed international bailout deal, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' administration is facing stark challenges in governing.

Many German people have no interest in considering debt forgiveness for Greece.

“What we learned in the last week is that not all the creditors are falling in line.”