Daily Archives: July 1, 2015

Greece debt crisis: IMF payment missed as bailout expires

Greece has missed the deadline for a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), hours after eurozone ministers refused to extend its bailout. But the ministers said they would discuss a last-minute suggestion from Greece for a new bailout programme. Greece is the first advanced country to fail to repay a loan to the IMF and is now ...

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US-Cuba ties: Washington and Havana to announce embassies

The US and Cuba will on Wednesday announce the opening of embassies in each other’s capitals, a major step in re-establishing diplomatic ties severed in 1961, a senior US official has said. Relations had been frozen since the early 1960s when the US broke links and imposed a trade embargo. This was in response to the revolution in 1961 which ...

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Lwandamina calls midfielder Ngulube for CHAN clash

Chipolopolo coach George Lwandamina has called Mufulira Wanderers midfielder, Jacob Ngulube to the CHAN squad that is currently in camp preparing for Saturday’s 2016 qualifier against Namibia. With Justin Zulu, Allan Mukuka and Jimmy Njobvu,ruled of Saturday’s must win match, Lwandamina has called in Festus Mbewe, Jacob Ngulube and Saith Sakala. Ngulube has been credited to have been one of ...

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