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BBC:Greece debt crisis: Bailout talks given go-ahead
Greece debt crisis: Bailout talks given go-ahead
Greece and its creditors can formally start talks on the country's third bailout after the necessary eurozone parliaments gave their backing.
The final approval came from the German parliament after an impassioned and at times ill-tempered debate.
A €7bn (£5bn) bridging loan has also been confirmed for Monday, when Greece has big debt repayments to make.
The head of the Eurogroup said there was now a chance to get the Greek economy back on track.
BBC:Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Eid prayer blasts hit Damaturu
Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Eid prayer blasts hit Damaturu
At least nine people have died in explosions at prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid in the Nigerian town of Damaturu, the army says.
The two female suicide bombers included a 10-year-old girl, said Nigerian army spokesman Col Sani Usman.
There were two blasts at a venue where volunteers were waiting to screen worshippers, he said.
No group has said it carried the attack but Boko Haram has recently stepped up its campaign of violence.
BBC:Japan scraps 2020 Olympic stadium design
Japan scraps 2020 Olympic stadium design
The Japanese government has decided to scrap its controversial design for the stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his government would "start over from zero".
The original design, by British architect Zaha Hadid, had come under criticism as estimated building costs almost doubled, reaching $2bn (£1.3bn)
Mr Abe says the new stadium will still be completed in time for the games.
BBC:Indonesia volcanic ash shuts more airports on Eid eve
Indonesia volcanic ash shuts more airports on Eid eve
Ash spewing from two volcanoes in Indonesia has shut three more airports, which means five are now closed as millions head home for the Eid holiday.
The closures were sparked by eruptions at Mount Raung and Mount Gamalama.
Raung, which has been rumbling for weeks, led to airport closures last week including at tourist hotspot Bali - that has since reopened.
But thousands remain stranded at other airports including at Surabaya, Indonesia's second biggest city.
BBC:Bolivian football chief arrested in corruption probe
Bolivian football chief arrested in corruption probe
The president of Bolivia's Football Federation has been arrested as part of a corruption inquiry, officials say.
Carlos Chavez is also the treasurer of the South American Football Confederation, Conmebol.
Bolivia began investigating its football federation after a major corruption scandal broke out involving the sport's world governing body Fifa.
More than 20 Bolivian football executives have given evidence in the courts so far.
BBC:Guzman escape: Seven Mexico prison officers charged
Guzman escape: Seven Mexico prison officers charged
Mexico's Attorney General has charged seven prison officers with involvement in the escape of the notorious drug lord, Joaquin Guzman, on Saturday.
Officials said a further 15 people were being investigated.
Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison through a tunnel that surfaced in his cell and ran 1.5 km to a building outside the prison walls.
Guzman's Sinaloa cartel is responsible for much of Mexico's trafficking of drugs to the US.
Reuters:Japan sets 26 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions as target
Japan sets 26 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions as target
Japan said on Friday it would slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2030 from 2013 levels and would submit the plan to the United Nations later in the day as its contribution to a global summit on climate change in Paris in November.
The target is based on the government's power generation plan for 2030 that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) finalised on Thursday. The plan calls for relying slightly less on nuclear power than on renewable energy following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Using 2013 as a baseline, Japan's 26 percent cut would be higher than an 18 to 21 percent cut by the United States by 2025 and a 24 percent cut by the European Union by 2030.
Japan - the world's fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases - saw its emissions rise to 1.41 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent, the second-highest on record, in the year through March 2014. That was up 10.8 percent from 1990, reflecting a rise in coal-fired power after the indefinite closure of nuclear power plants.
Reuters:China defense minister says Japan bill will 'complicate' region
China defense minister says Japan bill will 'complicate' region
China's defense minister told the head of Japan's National Security Council on Friday that Japanese legislation that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two would "complicate" regional security.
Sino-Japanese ties, long bedeviled by China's memories of Japan's wartime aggression and disputed islands in the East China Sea, have improved since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Chinese President Xi Jinping at an Asia-Pacific summit in Beijing in November.
The legislation, pushed through Japan's lower house of parliament on Thursday, would drop a ban on collective self-defense or fighting to defend a friendly country like the United States.
Chinese defense chief Chang Wanquan told Shotaro Yachi, who is a close ally of Abe's, that the passing of the bill was an "unprecedented move", state news agency Xinhua said, after the pair met in Beijing.
Reuters:Brazil's lower house speaker breaks with government
Brazil's lower house speaker breaks with government
The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, broke with the government of President Dilma Rousseff on Friday over corruption allegations, deepening a political crisis in Latin America's largest economy.
Cunha accused Rousseff's government and prosecutor general Rodrigo Janot of conspiring to incriminate him in a widening corruption scandal at state-run oil firm Petrobras in which he is being investigated for taking bribes.
"I cannot accept that the government uses its machinery to seek the political persecution of those who turn against it," Cunha told journalists in Brasilia.
Cunha said he would push to remove his Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, from a governing alliance at a party congress in September.
Reuters:'Our children should not forgive us': Rwanda women killers recall genocide
'Our children should not forgive us': Rwanda women killers recall genocide
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda's 1994 genocide talk about the killings as if they are still trying to justify why they took part in one of the most notorious mass killings of modern history.
"They were caught and killed easily," one of the women says about murdering ethnic Tutsis during the 100 days of slaughter.
"I can't explain it," says another. "We became just like wild animals."
Clad in pink and orange prison dresses, female perpetrators recall the past in "Shades of True", a documentary about eight women who took part in the genocide.
Reuters:German lawmakers back Greek bailout despite rebellion; Tsipras sacks dissenters
German lawmakers back Greek bailout despite rebellion; Tsipras sacks dissenters
German lawmakers gave their go-ahead on Friday for the euro zone to negotiate a third bailout for Greece, but a warning from Chancellor Angela Merkel that the alternative was chaos failed to prevent a hefty rebellion in her own party.
The Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, whose backing was essential for the talks to start, decisively approved the move by 439 votes to 119, but almost a fifth of Merkel's conservatives voted 'No'.
Popular misgivings run deep in Germany, the euro zone country that has already contributed most to Greece's two bailouts since 2010, about funneling yet more aid to Athens.
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Merkel's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, had suggested that Greece might be better off taking a time-out from the euro zone to sort out its daunting economic problems, although the creditors' offer to Athens includes the conditions for more austerity and economic reform that Berlin had demanded.
Reuters:CVS Health's photo service, UCLA Health get hacked
CVS Health's photo service, UCLA Health get hacked
University of California (UCLA) Health, which runs four hospitals in the university's campuses, and drug retailer CVS Health Corp's (CVS.N) CVSphoto.com became the latest victims of cyber attacks.
UCLA Health said on Friday that data on as many as 4.5 million individuals was at potentially at risk, although it added it had not yet found evidence that individuals' personal or medical information was actually accessed or acquired during the breach.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and private computer forensic experts are looking into the attack, UCLA Health said.
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Meanwhile, CVSphoto.com, CVS's online photo service, temporarily shut down access to online and related mobile photo services after falling victim to a similar breach.
LA Times:T-Mobile hit with $17.5 million FCC fine for 911 outages
T-Mobile hit with $17.5 million FCC fine for 911 outages
SAN FRANCISCO - T-Mobile will pay a $17.5 million fine to the Federal Communications Commission to resolve charges brought against the carrier for two 911 outages last summer that prevented customers from reaching emergency services for three hours, the FCC said in a statement Friday.
Every hour, some 27,400 calls are placed nationwide to 911 call centers. There were two nationwide T-Mobile outages on Aug. 8, 2014, during which time many of the mobile carrier's then 50 million subscribers were unable to reach first responders. The FCC charged that the incidents could have been prevented if T-Mobile had installed proper safeguards to its 911 system. The agency also said that T-Mobile failed to alert 911 call centers affected by the outage.
In addition to paying the fine, T-Mobile is obliged to identify and protect against flaws in its operations that could lead to future outages.
“The Commission has no higher priority than ensuring the reliability and resilience of our nation's communications networks so that consumers can reach public safety in their time of need,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement. “Communications providers that do not take necessary steps to ensure that Americans can call 911 will be held to account.”