Lawyers

• European Creditors Cannot Secure Greece Bailout Deal With IMF On Monday Meeting

  Greece has to pay its third bailout in July, but the European creditors are set to miss signing up a deal with the International Monetary Fund meant to lend the country €7 billion.

• Argentina Witnesses Huge Demand While Re-entering Into International Bond Market

  Argentina has re-entered the international credit markets through selling sovereign bonds. Though the country has initially set goal for raising $15 billion, but the country has already received orders for $65 billion. Details of the bond selling will be revealed on Tuesday.

• Greece to pursue deal with creditors to alleviate financial status

  Greece is keen on continuing the talks with its creditors in order to come up with a solution to the country's financial ailment. Different opinions on the issue have been the roadblock in coming up with a solution.

• Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Steps Down Amid Corruption Reports

  Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has stepped down from his post. He has tendered his resignation on Sunday.

• 'No' shapes Greek history, even when it's not the last word

  They defied a vast Persian army in 480 BC, rejected Italy's ultimatum during World War Two and told Europe to take a hike when presented with an unpalatable bailout deal in July, risking Greece's place in the euro zone.

• Ghana strike ends but election campaign to test IMF deal further

  Ghana faced down the first major challenge to an IMF austerity program on Monday when doctors suspended a three-week strike but a bigger test of President John Mahama's commitment will come next year as he fights for reelection.

• Greece votes in referendum with future in euro in doubt

  Greeks voted on Sunday whether to accept or reject the tough terms of an aid offer to stave off financial collapse, in a referendum that may determine their future in Europe’s common currency.

• Anti-austerity protests in Greece as bank shutdown bites

  Tens of thousands of Greeks rallied on Monday to back their leftwing government's rejection of a tough international bailout after a clash with foreign lenders pushed Greece close to financial chaos and forced a shutdown of its banking system.

• Strauss-Kahn acquitted in French vice trial

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted of sex crime charges on Friday by a French court which ruled the sexual escapades with prostitutes of a man once tipped to be French president did not amount to "aggravated pimping".

• Guinea opposition vows more protests unless president backs down

  Guinea’s opposition leader pledged to continue the protests in which at least four people have been killed unless President Alpha Conde allows prompt local elections.

• A year after revolution, Ukraine struggles with old hang-ups

  The former power company executive yanked up his trouser leg to show the electronic bracelet round his ankle that would alert police if he tried to make a run for it from Kiev.

• Ceasefire agreed for eastern Ukraine after Minsk summit

  The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine have agreed a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, participants at the summit talks said on Thursday.

• New violence in Ukraine diminishes hopes before four-way summit

  Rockets killed more than 10 civilians and soldiers deep in Ukrainian government-held territory on Tuesday and rebels pushed on with an assault on an army-held rail junction, setbacks that showed Kiev's position worsening on the eve of peace talks.

• Ex-IMF boss Strauss-Kahn faces French pimping trial

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief tipped to become French president before a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011, goes on trial in France on Monday in a separate case of alleged pimping.

• IMF focus on cutting debt over health spending worsened Ebola in Africa: study

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was partially responsible for the scale of the Ebola crisis in three West African countries as its policies hampered healthcare spending in these post-conflict states, according to a new study.

• Egypt's Sisi delivers economic reforms but hurdles remain

  In his first 100 days in office, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made a fast start on economic reform: slashing costly fuel subsidies, raising taxes and devising infrastructure projects to secure long-term revenues and ease unemployment.

• Ukraine president sets 2020 as EU target date, defends peace plan

  President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed reforms on Thursday spanning all aspects of life to make strife-torn Ukraine fit for European Union membership, warning his people that without reform they would face a future "alone with Russia."