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President Barack Obama is making a rare visit to the Pentagon to get an update from military leaders on the campaign against the Islamic State.
Obama's meetings follow a wave of weekend airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Syria. The coalition says it was one of the most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date.
The president has insisted he will not send U.S. troops into combat to fight the Islamic State in Iraq or Syria. However, he has acknowledged that the U.S. lacks a "complete strategy" for training Iraqi troops to carry out ground missions.
Efforts to train Syrian rebels are also sputtering. Fewer than 100 rebels are being trained by the U.S., far less than the goal of producing 5,400 fighters a year.
Officials said that the blast, which occurred near the Rasheed air base, also wounded at least 11 people.
Iraq received Sukhoi Su-25 jets from Russia and Iran last year as it sought to bolster its fledgling air force to combat the Islamic State jihadist group, which overran large parts of the country.
The accident occurred near the Rasheed air base (Reuters)
The Su-25s are robust aircraft designed for ground attack missions, but Iraq's Sukhoi fleet is made up of ageing planes that have seen heavy use as Baghdad's forces battle to push the jihadists back.
The US agreed to sell Iraq 36 F-16 warplanes, but none have been delivered so far.
The first batch of the jets has instead been sent to Arizona, where Iraqi F-16 pilots are training.
One of the pilots, Brigadier Rasid Mohammed Sadiq, was killed in a crash during an aerial refuelling exercise at the end of June.
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World | Mon Jul 6, 2015 9:51am EDT
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BEIRUT Islamic State fighters stormed a Syrian town held by Kurdish-led forces near Raqqa city on Monday, part of a wider offensive by the militants two days after their de facto capital was hit by some of the heaviest U.S.-led air strikes in the conflict.
The Kurdish YPG militia said it was fighting to expel Islamic State fighters who had attacked the town of Ain Issa, which was only captured from them two weeks ago with aerial support from the U.S.-led military alliance.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reports on the war, said Islamic State forces had taken the town and areas around it some 50 km (30 miles) north of Raqqa city. Air strikes at the weekend destroyed seven bridges over waterways in Raqqa, which is bordered to the south by the Euphrates river, it said.
Monday's attack on Ain Issa was part of a coordinated Islamic State offensive on YPG positions that also targeted the northeastern province of Hasaka, bordering Turkey to the north and Iraq to the south, YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said.
The YPG has been the only notable partner to date on the ground in Syria for the U.S.-led alliance battling to eliminate Islamic State in Syria and northern Iraq, where the group has declared a "caliphate" to rule over all Muslims.
Ain Issa, one of the YPG-held areas targeted on Monday, sits on a major east-west highway that runs all the way from Aleppo in the west to the Iraqi city of Mosul.
YPG-led forces said they had captured Ain Issa on June 23 in part of an offensive that drove deep into Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa province. They also said they had captured the northern town of Tel Abyad at the Turkish border.
The World Food Programme and local partners delivered 2,000 food rations to Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen families in Tel Abyad last Thursday, enough to last 10,000 people for a month, the U.N. agency said. Islamic State's retreat allowed access to the area for the first time in more than eight months, it said.
In the last two days, Islamic State have attacked YPG-held positions near the northeastern city of Hasaka, which is divided between government and YPG control, and in the Jabal Abdul Aziz mountain range southwest of the city, Nasir Haj Mansour, a Kurdish official in Hasaka province, said.
Hasaka is important in the battle against Islamic State for reasons including its location at the border with territory controlled by the group in Iraq.
The Observatory said Islamic State fighters had seized villages from YPG control in the Jabal Abdul Aziz area. It said the Islamic State offensive stretched all the way from Hasaka province in the north east to the town of Sarin in the north western Aleppo province.
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CAIRO Egyptian authorities have arrested 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on suspicion of planting bombs around the Suez Canal to disrupt shipping, security sources said on Monday.
The waterway, the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia, is a vital source of hard currency for Egypt, particularly since the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak and scared off tourists and foreign investment.
Egypt's government has escalated rhetoric against the Brotherhood, which it regards as a terrorist group, since the assassination of the country's top prosecutor last week.
The security sources said the men formed a 13-member cell that included an employee at the Suez Canal Authority.
Prosecutors had ordered that they be detained for 15 days and said they had planted bombs in areas including sanitation and electricity facilities as well as on beaches, they said.
No one at the prosecutors' office was immediately available to comment.
The army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
The Brotherhood says it is committed to peaceful activism designed to reverse what it calls a military coup, after former army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Mursi, and then went on to become elected president.
Security forces cracked down hard on Mursi's supporters after he was ousted, killing hundreds in the streets at Cairo protest camps and arresting thousands of others in what human rights groups described as a return to repression.
Since then, state-run media has demonized the Brotherhood.
Last week Egyptian security forces stormed an apartment in a western Cairo suburb and killed nine men whom they said were armed, the interior ministry said.
Among the dead was a prominent lawyer for the Brotherhood and a former lawmaker. The Brotherhood denied that the men were armed and said they were holding an "organizational meeting".
Egypt does not distinguish between the Brotherhood and groups such as Islamic State, which has an affiliate in Sinai, epicenter of an Islamist militant insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police since Mursi's fall.
(Reporting by Ahmed Mohamed Hassan; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Michael Georgy and Louise Ireland)
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DUBAI/ADEN Yemen's exiled government said on Monday it expects a deal shortly on a humanitarian ceasefire that would run through the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday later this month, as air strikes by Saudi-led warplanes killed at least 30 people.
The United Nations has been pushing for a halt to fighting and air raids that have killed nearly 3,000 people in Yemen since March when a Saudi-led coalition intervened against Houthi forces in a bid to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The government, exiled in Riyadh, said talks were focusing on carrying out an April U.N. resolution calling for the Iranian-allied Houthis to quit cities seized since September and for aid supplies to be sent to stricken Yemeni civilians.
"We are now in consultations for guarantees to ensure the success of the truce," Hadi spokesman Rajeh Badi told Reuters.
"The mechanism we presented to implement Resolution 2216 demanded real guarantees to ensure aid is delivered to those who need it," he said, noting that talks were under way to "lift the deliberate siege on Aden, Taiz, Lahj and Dhalea".
Major cities in central and southern Yemen have been racked by heavy fighting between the Houthis and a patchwork of military, regional and tribal forces allied with Hadi.
Badi said a sought-after "humanitarian pause" would last through the end of the three-day Eid, due to start on July 17.
The Houthis have also signaled readiness to honor a truce.
Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam last week said in a Facebook post he had discussed the matter with U.N. Yemen envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed in Muscat, Oman on Friday. Cheikh Ahmed flew to Sanaa on Sunday for talks with the Houthis.
The United Nations last week designated the war in Yemen as a Level 3 humanitarian crisis, its most severe category, and the United States and the European Union have endorsed calls for a humanitarian suspension of hostilities.
On Friday, the United Nations alerted aid groups that a truce could start soon and advised them to be ready to start shipping aid. The United Nations engineered a five-day humanitarian ceasefire in May but aid groups said it did not last long enough to cover all of Yemen's needs.
In southern Yemen, a bombing run by Saudi-led warplanes killed around 30 people at a market in the town of al-Foyoush on the road between the major port of Aden and the province of Lahj, according to local residents.
They said that 10 of the dead were Houthis while the rest were civilians shopping at an adjacent popular market.
The Houthi-controlled Saba news agency said 42 people in all had died in Saudi-led strikes across the country on Monday.
On Sunday, at least five civilians were killed when shells fired by Houthi forces stationed north of Aden landed on a kindergarten in Mansoura district used to house displaced Yemenis from the port city, residents said.
Local fighters also said they killed up to 30 Houthi combatants in an area known as al-Basateen north of Aden on Sunday. It was not immediately possible to confirm the report.
(Writing by Maha El Dahan; Editing by William Maclean and Mark Heinrich)
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The recent conquest of Tal Abyad has meant two of the three “cantons” - Kobane and Jazeera, to the east - now touch on each other, allowing for an even greater measure of autonomy.
“From the start of our self-administration there’s been coordination between the heads of the three cantons,” Mr Hasso, who runs Jazeera, says. “Opening this corridor will make the coordination better.”
He has, at his finger-tips, many of the advantages of a state. He exacts taxes from exports - as the long queues of trucks laden with sheep and produce waiting to cross the Tigris into the neighbouring Kurdistan Region of Iraq bear witness.
The government buys wheat and other agricultural produce from local farmers, and stores it or sell it on elsewhere in Syria, or to Iraq.
It also has its own oil supplies, from the nodding donkeys that line the region’s roads. Though the local oil refinery is operating at just five per cent capacity, thanks to the fighting, it is a start.
The desperate battle for Kobane meant that for the first time, the Syrian Kurds’ dominant political party, the PYD, and their male and female fighting forces - the YPG and YPJ - achieved international renown - particularly the female fighters.
Obscured were their origins as a semi-Marxist spin-off from the PKK, the group that has fought the government in neighbouring Turkey for decades and is still a proscribed terrorist organisation.
It is partly to ensure good relations with the West that the PYD refuses to say it seeks an independent state, which would infuriate Turkey.
That may change as chaos further engulfs Syria, said Michael Stephens, an analyst with the Royal United Services Institute. “It may well be that as Syria continues to fragment the PYD ends up with even more than it aims for, a de facto independent state entity,” he said.
That threatens its own political fall-out. While the fighting continues, there is little challenge to the dominance of the PYD. If the region, with its 4.5 million inhabitants who include Arabs and Christians as well as largely Sunni Muslim Kurds, becomes more settled, its claims to be democratic and pluralistic will be put to the test.
The Kurds pride themselves on what they see as their ethnic and religiously inclusive policies – in Jazeera, Mr Hesso’s deputy is Elizabeth Gawrie, a Catholic Syriac woman.
However, recent reports accuse the YPG of expelling non-Kurdish citizens from their towns in an act of ethnic cleansing.
One of the many western volunteers to help them in their fight, a man from Germany, admitted he had seen Kurds vandalising Arab towns.There is huge suspicion that local Arabs have helped Isil in the war.
The PYD and the YPG have also gained a reputation for stifling dissent. In 2014, the local administration ordered staff at the local radio station Arta FM to stop their sometimes critical news reporting and only broadcast music.
“We have had agreements to share the administration but the PYD does not stick to them,” protested Anwar Nasso, a member of one opposition party, Yekiti.
The mainstream opposition coalitoin the Kurdish National Council (KNC) is becoming increasingly resentful.
“It would be difficult for the PYD to ignore the multiple constituencies in Rojava without there being a significant level of domestic unrest,” Mr Stephens said. “It is in the PYD’s interests to be as inclusive as possible, and there is much to lose if it is not.”
That remains for the future. Apart from Isil, one other large obstacle remains to the PYD’s dream of uniting Jazeera, Kobane and the third canton, Afrin to the west - the continued presence of the regime.
Damascus continues to run check-points and bases in both the region’s two main cities, Qamishli and Hassakeh. In return, it continues to pay teachers’ and doctors’ salaries
But Mr Hesso is insistent that his administration is as self-reliant as can be expected in a chaotic environment. “We’ve been buying and selling locally and the money that is coming in is not from the regime,” he said.
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BEIJING China plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia, and its fight against Japan, with a stream of movies, concerts, performances and exhibitions, officials said on Monday, in an effort to strengthen "nationalism and culture".
The centerpiece of the events is a military parade through central Beijing in September, although few top Western officials are likely to attend, for fear of sending the wrong signal in a region fraught with territorial disputes and bitter war memories.
China-Japan relations have long been affected by what China sees as Japan's failure to atone for its occupation of parts of the country before and during the war. Beijing rarely misses a chance to remind the world of its suffering at the hands of Japan.
Over the next three months, the Chinese government will promote 20 documentaries, 12 television dramas and three animated programs. Items already presented include more than 180 children's shows, dramas and musicals.
"By highlighting the spirit of patriotism, uprightness and heroism in their creations, artists can help the public to strengthen their values on history, nationalism and culture, (and) therefore increase their self-confidence and dignity as Chinese," Vice Minister of Culture Dong Wei said in written remarks before a news briefing.
At least five new films have finished shooting and will be screened at major cinemas beginning in early September, Tian Jin, vice minister at the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, told reporters.
Dong, Tian, and several other officials, including those from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the State Archives Administration, declined to answer a Reuters question on concerns whether the works would stoke regional tension.
Many of the works will highlight the efforts of China's ruling Communist Party in the war against Japan.
An exhibition organized by the PLA will focus on the Party's "critical role" in the war and a concert titled "The Great Wall Built by Flesh and Blood", will show the spirit of China's armed forces "under the leadership of the Communist Party", Li Zhensheng, deputy publicity chief of the PLA's General Political Department, said in a statement.
President Ma Ying-jeou of self-ruled Taiwan said on Saturday it was Nationalist Chinese forces which won the war against Japan, challenging Beijing's official line, which focuses on the heroics of the Communist army.
After the war, Chinese Communists and Nationalists resumed a civil war that resulted in Nationalist forces withdrawing to Taiwan in 1949, though China still claims the island as its own.
(Reporting by Michael Martina; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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BEIJING Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India will start the process of joining a security bloc led by China and Russia at a summit in Russia later this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday, the first time the grouping has expanded since it was set up in 2001.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) groups China, Russia and the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, while India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Mongolia are observers.
"As the influence of the SCO's development has expanded, more and more countries in the region have brought up joining the SCO," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told a news briefing."India and Pakistan's admission to the SCO will play an important role in the SCO's development. It will play a constructive role in pushing for the improvement of their bilateral relations."
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since 1947, two of them over the divided Muslim-majority region of Kashmir which they both claim in full but rule in part. Pakistan also believes India is supporting separatists in resource-rich Baluchistan province, as well as militants fighting the state.
India applied to join the regional security grouping last year and SCO foreign ministers gave a positive recommendation when they met in June. "We await further developments," said Sujata Mehta, a senior foreign ministry official.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Moscow for a summit of the BRICS group of emerging markets and both he and his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, will attend a special SCO "outreach" session as part of the gathering.
Pakistan's application is being considered, said foreign ministry spokesman Qazi Khalilullah. "We hope they will support us for full membership," he added.
The grouping was originally formed to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighboring Afghanistan.
Cheng said the summit, to be attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, would also discuss security in Afghanistan.
Beijing says separatist groups in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur minority, seek to form their own state, called East Turkestan, and have links with militants in Central Asia, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan.
China says Uighur militants, operating as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), have also been working with Islamic State.
"It can be said that ETIM certainly has links with the Islamic State, and has participated in relevant terrorist activities. China is paying close attention to this, and will have security cooperation with relevant countries," Cheng said.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Douglas Busvine in New Delhi; Editing by Nick Macfie and Clarence Fernandez)
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The fallout from the appalling security breach of federal employee records from the Office of Personnel Management continues to spread. And with agency director Katherine Archuleta expected this week to release the presumably final tally of people whose information was compromised, the full extent of this scandal should come into clearer — and even more alarming — focus.
As Thursday’s Washington Post reported: “The stolen information included names and Social Security numbers that cyber thieves can use for espionage or bogus financial transactions. But health information of individuals seeking security clearances apparently also was tapped in another breach OPM announced several days after the first one.”
And apparently there wasn’t just one break-in to the OPM files. The first was into a system containing personal information on about 4.2 million current and former federal employees. The second more serious breach gained access to systems with the personal files of people applying for security clearances.
As the OPM put it, breached systems “included those that contain information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective federal government employees, as well as other individuals for whom a federal background investigation was conducted.”
Nor is OPM the only federal agency with data-security problems. From U.S. News & World Report last week:
“According to the Government Accountability Office, the number of ‘information security incidents’ in which federal data were compromised — which is a softer way of saying stolen — has risen from 5,503 in 2006 to 67,168 in 2014. That information was conveyed to the U.S. House Homeland Security committee by Gregory Wilshusen, the GAO information security director, who also said the National Cybersecurity Protection System may just not be effective at keeping intruders out of government data.”
Nearly three weeks ago, the OPM’s inspector general said the agency’s plans to upgrade its systems and make them more secure were so poorly designed and funded that there is “a high risk that this project will fail to meet the objectives of providing a secure operating environment for OPM systems and applications.”
More evidence of the agency’s incompetent reaction to the crisis: It gave a $21 million contract to a firm that has proven itself incapable of handling the traffic generated by queries from the millions of affected individuals.
The Post also has reported that the website created by the contractor to which OPM refers inquiries frequently crashes, and that a phone hotline provided as a backup is so poorly staffed that people wanting to sign up for identity theft insurance and other protections offered by OPM have had to spend as long as three hours on hold.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., fairly observed: “The agency’s awarding of this contract suggests ... that protecting employees exposed by the breach is not the top priority for OPM that it should be.”
Correcting this intolerable shortcoming must become a top priority for Congress and the White House.
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President Obama is likely to have a packed agenda when he visits east Africa later this month, but Kenyans are already using Twitter to advise him on what he should - or shouldn't - be discussing.
#KenyansMessageToObama is trending in the country, with nearly 3,000 tweets in just a few hours Monday morning. One prominent topic of conversation is gay rights. "Spare us the gay talk," one user comments, while another tweets: "That gay vibe should remain in America."
Last month the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal across the country, a decision that was hailed by Obama - although he had expressed opposition to gay marriage in the past. More broadly, Obama has used previous trips to Africa to urge governments to decriminalise homosexuality. Gay sex is illegal in Kenya, and punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Anti-gay activists held a protest in Nairobi on Monday morning. Most of the messages mentioning gay rights under the #KenyansMessagetoObama tag are anti-homosexual, but a few Kenyans do offer an opposing view. "Gays are part of our society," one says, "we need to give them some space."
Gay rights, while a popular topic of discussion, isn't the only suggestion for the official visit. Several encourage the US president to try local delicacies, for instance a type of sausage:
There were more than a few jokes at the expense of a lawyer who plans to offer 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats as a bride price for Obama's elder daughter, 17-year-old Malia.
"Owing to increasing demand of Kenyan men on Malia," tweets Nathan Murgor, "You're advised to have her keep you company."
But a number of more serious issues are also suggested. "Avoid Kenyan politicians," advises one activist. Others decry the fact that neglected roads will be spruced up for the occasion. "Kindly visit every county so that there can be beautification and cleaning everywhere," tweets @jacksonjaxo. "#KenyansMessageToObama hash tag reflects a popular African trend," laments Martha Rose. "Clean house only because visitors are coming."
And one of the most retweeted messages is an apparent reference to the frantic pace of construction in the Kenyan capital. "When you land, ask to use Jogoo Rd," said @Ma3Route. "Mombasa Rd will give you false impression."
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World | Mon Jul 6, 2015 9:18am EDT
NAIROBI | By Humphrey Malalo
Members of the anti-gay caucus chant slogans against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community as they march along the streets in Kenya's capital Nairobi July 6, 2015.
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Police stand guard as members of the anti-gay caucus gather outside the Parliament while chanting slogans against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Kenya's capital Nairobi July 6, 2015.
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NAIROBI Dozens of Kenyans rallied in Nairobi on Monday against homosexuality and a lawmaker said U.S. President Barack Obama should not push a pro-gay agenda when he visits the country later this month.
Obama has hailed last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage but few share his views in Kenya or other African countries, where more socially and religiously conservative views generally prevail.
"We are telling Mr Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home," lawmaker Irungu Kangata told the demonstrators outside parliament.
Many of the Nairobi demonstrators wore t-shirts with the slogans "Protect the family match" and "Stand with the family".
In most of Africa's 54 countries, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have to hide their sexual orientation for fear of persecution or criminal prosecution. South Africa is the only African country that permits gay or lesbian marriage.
Deputy President William Ruto told a church congregation in May that Kenya had "no room for gays". The comment was made the same day that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Nairobi for talks.
Anti-gay remarks by African leaders often win public support but put them at odds with Western donors who provide valuable economic and other support to the continent.
African gay rights activists have called for Obama to show solidarity with them during his trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, which is expected to start on July 25.
The White House has said one focus of Obama's trip will be to encourage entrepreneurship.
(Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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Police are circulating this footage after an unsuspecting 52 year-old Navy veteran was knocked to the ground by a street thug and then beaten unconscious.
The Navy veteran NEVER saw it coming.
The suspect is described as a black teenager with braided hair, wearing blue jeans, a white sweat shirt, red tennis shoes and a black baseball cap.
The victim had just exited a trolley on June 13th.
Don’t expect this to make many headlines.
It doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative.
Don’t expect this to make many headlines.
It doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative.
Blacks commit 25 times more violent assaults on Whites.
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It's estimated more than 20 million Nigerians suffer from mental illness, but many opt for traditional healers instead of getting professional help. The World Health Organization (WHO) says only three percent of the country’s health budget goes to mental health. Mohammed Yusuf reports from Kaduna, Nigeria on a center for the mentally ill where traditional medicines and methods are used in combination with teaching the patients new skills.
It's estimated more than 20 million Nigerians suffer from mental illness, but many opt for traditional healers instead of getting professional help. The World Health Organization (WHO) says only three percent of the country’s health budget goes to mental health. Mohammed Yusuf reports from Kaduna, Nigeria on a center for the mentally ill where traditional medicines and methods are used in combination with teaching the patients new skills.
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Greece Defiantly Rejects Europe's Bailout Termsby webdesk@voanews.com (Henry Ridgwell)
Greeks have voted against accepting a bailout from the European Union in return for more spending cuts. Early results suggest the ‘No’ camp won with around 61 percent of the vote. As Henry Ridgwell reports from Athens, all eyes are now on Europe’s response.
Greeks’ Emphatic ‘No’ and a Rebuke Over Austerityby ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Celebrating the vote to say no to more austerity measures tied to a possible new bailout, Greeks gathered in Athens’ Syntagma Square and explained their frustration.
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