News archive of July 2015

A growing file of law suits – three in total – against former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is in Greek Parliament. The accusations concern his Plan B – a plan for a parallel payments system based on Greece’s tax register.

by Natasa Kremmyda

August 1: Mario Frangoulis “Athens – Buenos Aires” at the 10th International Music Festival of Aegina.

A container filled with unexploded cluster bombs has been discovered close to the Dubinje military airport, near Sjenica in southwestern Serbia.

The public broadcaster RTS is reporting that based on the markings on the container, it was made in the United States, and was used by NATO during the military alliance's attacks on Serbia in 1999.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said he is "utterly disappointed" by a voting in Parliament in which MPs rejected two of the three questions to be put forward in a referendum on election rules.

Kuwait has broken up a new five-member cell of alleged members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group one month after a deadly bombing at a Shiite mosque, the interior ministry said July 30.

A white Ohio police officer who shot a black man during a routine traffic stop was charged with murder July 29 in what prosecutors called a "senseless" act motivated by anger.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Iraqi Kurdish President Massud Barzani have agreed that Turkey must continue the Kurdish peace process despite escalating violence, Berlin said July 29.

Russia vetoed on Wednesday the United Nations (UN) resolution on establishing an international tribunal for prosecuting the people guilty of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17).

Eleven members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted in favour of the proposal, which would have been enough for the resolution to be adopted, but Russia used its right of veto.

A suspect in a triple murder case dating back to 2000 is a former member of the disbanded Unit for Special Operations (JSO).

This is according to an article in the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

Dear Prime Minister Tsipras,

First, congratulations for mustering the popular support to say “no” to the troika. The euro has long offered Greece a perverse incentive to borrow, and now your country is trapped in debt. By any conventional means, Greece cannot repay (I propose an unconventional way, below). The sooner everyone acknowledges this simple fact the better.