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BBC:Greece debt crisis: Mass rival rallies over bailout vote
Greece debt crisis: Mass rival rallies over bailout vote
Tens of thousands of Greeks have attended rival rallies in Athens ahead of a crucial referendum on Sunday.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was greeted with huge cheers when he told supporters to vote "No" to the terms of an international bailout.
But those attending another huge rally nearby warned a "No" vote would see Greece ejected from the eurozone.
A Greek court earlier rejected a challenge to the legality of the referendum and it will go ahead.
BBC:Cancer patient becomes Colombia's first legal euthanasia case
Cancer patient becomes Colombia's first legal euthanasia case
A 79-year old Colombian man has become the first person in the country to die legally by euthanasia.
Ovidio Gonzalez was suffering from terminal throat cancer and said he had been suffering unbearable pain.
Colombia's Catholic Church has said euthanasia is morally unacceptable and it has threatened to close its hospitals across the country.
Colombia is one of the few countries in the world, and the only one in Latin America, where euthanasia is allowed.r
BBC:Julian Assange case: France rejects 'asylum plea
Julian Assange case: France rejects 'asylum plea
France has rejected an apparent appeal by the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to grant him asylum.
Prosecutors in Sweden want to question Mr Assange over sex assault claims.
The 44-year-old Australian denies the allegations. He has been living at Ecuador's embassy in London since 2012.
On Friday, France's Le Monde newspaper published an open letter Mr Assange had written to President Francois Hollande asking for asylum. However, his lawyers later said he had never sought it.
BBC:China to probe stock market manipulation
China to probe stock market manipulation
China's securities regulator will investigate suspected manipulation of the stock market, state news agency Xinhua reports.
The regulator said late on Thursday that it would be looking into whether parties were mis-selling financial products.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite index has slumped about 30% since mid-June, wiping out most of this year's gains.
Any criminal cases will be transferred to the police, the regulator said.
BBC:Airbus signs deal for second plant in China
Airbus signs deal for second plant in China
Airbus has signed a deal for its second factory in China as it expands further its growing relationship with the world's second-largest economy.
The new cabin-completion factory for A330 jetliners is worth a reported €150m ($166.3m; £106.5m) and is aimed at attracting new orders for Airbus.
The plant will be built alongside an existing site in the city of Tianjin.
The signing on Thursday was witnessed by China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang at Airbus's headquarters in France.
BBC:Tunisia attack: Sousse police slow to respond - PM Essid
Tunisia attack: Sousse police slow to respond - PM Essid
Tunisia's prime minister has told the BBC that the slow response of police to last week's deadly attack on a tourist resort was a major problem.
On Friday Habib Essid took part in a minute's silence to remember the 38 people who were killed in the town of Sousse, south of Tunis, a week ago.
He said he was deeply sorry for the attack, in which 30 Britons died.
Mr Essid said the government believed there was only one gunman, and that he had links to a known terrorist group.
Reuters:At least 25 Syrian al Qaeda members dead in mosque blast in Syria's Idlib: monitor
At least 25 Syrian al Qaeda members dead in mosque blast in Syria's Idlib: monitor
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.
The blast in the town of Ariha in northwestern Syria went off as members of the Nusra Front gathered at the mosque for iftar, the meal with which Muslims break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan,
Observatory, which tracks the war, said the explosion in Salem Mosque in Ariha, also killed a senior non-Syrian member of the hardline jihadist organization. Opposition-based social media websites had conflicting casualty figures with some saying more than 40 people were dead.
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No group announced responsibility for the blast, but supporters of Nusra Front blamed rival ultra hardline Islamic State militants who have fought the group on several frontlines in Syria.
Reuters:Iran nuclear talks in endgame, negotiators push on sticking points
Iran nuclear talks in endgame, negotiators push on sticking points
A year and half of nuclear talks between Iran and major powers were creeping toward the finish line on Friday as negotiators wrestled with sticking points including questions about Tehran's past atomic research.
Iran is in talks with the United States and five other powers - Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia - on an agreement to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
"We are coming to the end," said 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."
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a deal was close.
Reuters:Rockets land in Israel, Egypt's IS affiliate claims responsibility
Rockets land in Israel, Egypt's IS affiliate claims responsibility
Militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula fired rockets into southern Israel on Friday in an incident that caused no casualties but appeared to be linked to fighting between Islamist insurgents and Egyptian security forces.
Islamic State's Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, said in a statement posted on Twitter by supporters that it had launched three Grad rockets toward "occupied Palestine". Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the statement.
An Israeli military source earlier said the rockets had been fired from Sinai, which borders Israel, the Gaza Strip and the Suez Canal.
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Israeli police said they had so far found remnants of two rockets in an open area. No damage or casualties were reported.
Reuters:New York governor orders more July Fourth security after alert
New York governor orders more July Fourth security after alert
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered heightened security measures across the state over the U.S. July Fourth holiday weekend in response to a call for vigilance by the federal government.
"We are keenly aware that New York State remains a top target for terrorists," Cuomo said in a statement.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have issued an alert calling for local authorities and the public to remain vigilant for possible threats following recent calls for violence by Islamic State militants.
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In New York City, the nation's largest municipal police force assigned about 7,000 officers and nearly all its counterterrorism personnel to handle security around Independence Day events.
Reuters:Lawsuit filed against U.S. over protections for rare wolf
Lawsuit filed against U.S. over protections for rare wolf
A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday against U.S. wildlife officials arguing that the government's management plan for the endangered Mexican gray wolf, one of the most imperiled mammals in North America, does not go far enough.
The Western Environmental Law Center filed the suit on behalf of several organizations in a federal Arizona court, alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plans for the wolves violate the Endangered Species Act and other laws.
At issue is a final rule published in January that, while allowing more territory for the wolves to roam, also capped their population and provided more leeway to state wildlife agencies and others to kill the wolves to protect livestock as well as deer and elk herds prized by hunters.
"Unfortunately, politics supplants wildlife biology in key parts of the USFWS Mexican gray wolf plan," attorney John Mellgren of the Western Environmental Law Center said in a statement. "Our goal in this case is to put the science back into the management of Mexican wolves in the U.S."
Reuters:Brazil probes currency market activity of 15 global banks
Brazil probes currency market activity of 15 global banks
Fifteen of the world's largest banks are under investigation on suspicion of rigging the Brazilian currency, antitrust watchdog Cade said on Thursday, the first such probe in one of the busiest foreign exchange markets globally.
In a document, Cade alleged that the banks colluded to influence benchmark currency rates in Brazil by aligning positions and pushing transactions in a way that deterred competitors from the market between 2007 and 2013, at least. Foreign exchange trading in Brazil is estimated at about $3 trillion a year, excluding swaps and derivative transactions.
The banks named in the Cade probe are Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N), Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ [MTFGTY.UL], Barclays Plc (BARC.L), Citigroup Inc (C.N), Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.VX), Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), Morgan Stanley & Co (MS.N), Nomura Holdings Inc (8604.T), Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO), Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS.L), Standard Bank Group Ltd (SBKJ.J), Standard Chartered Plc (STAN.L) and UBS AG (UBSN.S).
The Brazilian investigation comes weeks after six of the world's largest financial institutions agreed to pay $5.8 billion to the U.S. government to settle charges of currency rigging. The U.S. probe took more than five years and five of those banks, which are being probed by Cade, pleaded guilty.
NY Daily News:MasterCard preps technology to make payments with selfies
MasterCard preps technology to make payments with selfies
Why didn’t Kim Kardashian think of this?
MasterCard will soon please shopaholics and selfie-addicts with a new facial recognition payment service, expected to roll out this fall, CNN Money reported Wednesday.
The high-tech concept is designed to cut down credit card fraud and block access to the credit card numbers of off-guard shoppers online.
For now, MasterCard customers are able to use a password when making purchases via the "SecureCode" service, but soon purchases can be made with the snap of a camera phone.