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Hans Joerg Schelling said Greece would need humanitarian aid in case of "Grexit" but described fears of widespread poverty sweeping Greece as overstated.

Earlier this year, Boko Haram occupied large parts of northeastern Nigeria and was increasingly mounting attacks on neighboring states, prompting the regional leaders into action.

China is preparing to launch a new institutional lender, seen as encroaching on the regional clout of Tokyo and ally Washington.

Smoking marijuana recreationally became legal in Oregon on Wednesday. The law opens the way for shops to sell marijuana by next year.

An explosion at a mosque in Syria's Idlib province on Friday killed at least 25 members of the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, the British-based Observatory monitoring group said.

Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas controlled by President Bashar al-Assad.

“We are coming to the end,” says a senior Western diplomat, who added there was no plan to carry on for long past next Tuesday. “Either we get an agreement or we don’t.”

The offer, if it goes through, would make it the largest deal in the insurance industry, dwarfing Anthem Inc.'s acquisition of WellPoint in 2004 for $16.6 billion.

Antonio Gates has been suspended for the first four games of the 2015 NFL season for using a banned substance

A U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky admitted in federal court that he took $100,000 in cash bribes as well as jewelry from vendors seeking contracts while he was assigned to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, prosecutors said.

A freight train carrying flammable and toxic gas derailed in eastern Tennessee, igniting a fire in one car and spreading noxious fumes that forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 people and the hospitalization of 25, officials said.

Investor sentiment globally is expected to remain cautious in the coming weeks.

The U.S. jobless rate is forecast to fall one-tenth of a percentage point back to a seven-year low of 5.4 percent.

China said Tuesday some of its land reclamation in the Spratlys, where it's building seven islands on top of coral reefs, had been completed, although it gave few details.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged more companies to make electronic and digital goods on Wednesday, reviving his campaign promise to bridge India's digital divide backed by over $70 billion in investment pledges.

Egypt's army said on Wednesday more than 100 militants and 17 soldiers were killed after simultaneous assaults on military checkpoints in North Sinai, in the deadliest fighting in years in the restive province.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was prepared to accept creditors' demands for a bailout with only a few minor changes, the Financial Times said.

IndiGo, which operates a fleet of 96 planes, is India's biggest airline by market share.

Beijing has rolled out a flurry of stimulus measures since last year but analysts remain wary about the outlook.

Bush revealed that since the end of his tenure as Florida governor in 2007, his annual income has risen sharply to nearly $7.4 million in 2013 from $260,580 in 2006.

One source with direct knowledge of the matter said the new deal would see Alibaba directly invest around $600 million for a share in Paytm.

The group's warning about a possible British exit from the EU is one of the strongest yet.

According to market research company GfK, British consumers' mood in June was the most buoyant since January 2000.

President Obama on Monday announced a proposal that would make nearly 5 million more workers eligible for overtime pay, a move that would touch nearly every sector of the U.S. economy and could face legal challenges.

The explosion that doomed SpaceX's flight to the ISS Sunday won't make a difference to the astronauts who were waiting for the Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a fresh payload. The team floating above Earth is already stocked with supplies, and is expecting a Russian Soyuz rocket to ferry another round.

Bubba Watson used a second extra hole to hold off Paul Casey in Connecticut.

A default by Greece would set in motion events that could lead to the country's exit from the euro currency bloc.

Dudley, a dovish policymaker, is a close ally of Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

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