PM Tsipras promises new proposal for bailout on Tuesday
As Greece voted on Sunday against austerity measures in exchange for a financial bailout to avert a crisis that may see them exit the eurozone, the country's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis resigned on Monday. Varoufakis' exit is seen as one which will remove a "major obstacle" reaching a bailout deal. The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised German Chancellor Angela Merkel a proposal for a cash-for-reforms deal to an emergency summit of eurozone leaders on Tuesday, a Greek official said. Previous deals have been rejected because of Greece's unwillingness to agree to labour and pension reforms being asked for by its European creditors.
Pope greets millions in Ecuador
Pope Francis was greeted by a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil on Monday where he conducted an open-air mass. The Pope arrived in Ecuador on Sunday for the first leg on his trip to Latin America, which will also take him to Bolivia and Paraguay. This is his second visit to the region after becoming pontiff in 2013. Vatican officials have indicated that the Pope chose a few of the smaller, poorer countries in the region for his visit, a decision that reflecting his interest in "peripheries".
42 dead in Yemen airstrike
An airstrike hit a livestock market in Yemen on Monday, killing at least 42, officials said. Officials added there were likely to be more casualties, with at least 65 injured in the attack, some critically wounded. The attack occurred in suburban Fyoush, about nine miles north of the port city of Aden. At least 1,500 civilians have been killed and many more wounded since airstrikes began on Yemen from March 25, according to the United Nations.
Campaign against ISIS intensifying: Obama
US President Barack Obama has indicated that the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is intensifying its campaign in northern Syria. Reiterating that the US would not send additional troops to Syria, Obama indicated that the coalition would increase support for the country's moderate forces of opposition. Obama also indicated that until the coalition has an "effective partner on the ground", it will continue targeting oil and gas facilities that are under ISIS control in order to cut funding for the group.
Boko Haram steps up attacks
Boko Haram militants attacked a mosque in the city of Jos on Sunday night, killing 44. Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a church in the city of Potiskum killing five. In another incident in the northern city of Kano, a 13-year-old girl was killed after explosives strapped to her went off near a mosque in the northern city of Kano, authorities said. No one else was caught in the blast.
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As Greece voted on Sunday against austerity measures in exchange for a financial bailout to avert a crisis that may see them exit the eurozone, the country's finance minister Yanis Varoufakis resigned on Monday. Varoufakis' exit is seen as one which will remove a "major obstacle" reaching a bailout deal. The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised German Chancellor Angela Merkel a proposal for a cash-for-reforms deal to an emergency summit of eurozone leaders on Tuesday, a Greek official said. Previous deals have been rejected because of Greece's unwillingness to agree to labour and pension reforms being asked for by its European creditors.
Pope greets millions in Ecuador
Pope Francis was greeted by a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil on Monday where he conducted an open-air mass. The Pope arrived in Ecuador on Sunday for the first leg on his trip to Latin America, which will also take him to Bolivia and Paraguay. This is his second visit to the region after becoming pontiff in 2013. Vatican officials have indicated that the Pope chose a few of the smaller, poorer countries in the region for his visit, a decision that reflecting his interest in "peripheries".
42 dead in Yemen airstrike
An airstrike hit a livestock market in Yemen on Monday, killing at least 42, officials said. Officials added there were likely to be more casualties, with at least 65 injured in the attack, some critically wounded. The attack occurred in suburban Fyoush, about nine miles north of the port city of Aden. At least 1,500 civilians have been killed and many more wounded since airstrikes began on Yemen from March 25, according to the United Nations.
Campaign against ISIS intensifying: Obama
US President Barack Obama has indicated that the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is intensifying its campaign in northern Syria. Reiterating that the US would not send additional troops to Syria, Obama indicated that the coalition would increase support for the country's moderate forces of opposition. Obama also indicated that until the coalition has an "effective partner on the ground", it will continue targeting oil and gas facilities that are under ISIS control in order to cut funding for the group.
Boko Haram steps up attacks
Boko Haram militants attacked a mosque in the city of Jos on Sunday night, killing 44. Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a church in the city of Potiskum killing five. In another incident in the northern city of Kano, a 13-year-old girl was killed after explosives strapped to her went off near a mosque in the northern city of Kano, authorities said. No one else was caught in the blast.