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BELGRADE - Partizan defeated Spandau from Berlin 8-6 (2-2 2-1 3-0 1-3) in the 6th round on Group B of the waterpolo Champions League in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The German team defeated Partizan in the previous round with the same result. The match on Wednesday marked Partizan's second victory in the group, while Spandau recorded their 5th defeat.

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami says he regrets that Hong Kong's democracy protests did not bring the changes demanded by demonstrators, but their actions were not in vain.
      

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Monday quashed same-day reports of a third bailout for Greece, essentially ending speculation from a statement by the Spanish FinMin.
The latter claimed that eurozone members were discussing a bailout of between 30 and 50 billion euros.
"There are no talks about that," Juncker said in Berlin.

She has impressed her fans for twenty whole years with her extreme vocal range and musical talent. Beth Hart’s unique voice has moved guitar legends Jeff Beck, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Buddy Guy to record albums with her and appear live on stage alongside her.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel used a conference on "innovation" in Berlin on Monday to skewer any idea of "creative ambiguity" in the text of a last-minute deal between the Eurogroup and the Greek government last month.

The curious quip was used by none other than Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis to characterize the text, when speaking to the local press.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged the new Greek government on Sunday to use a four-month extension it obtained for its financial rescue to implement its reform plan if it wanted to secure future help from abroad.

Reuters reports that all latest developments on Greek debt crisis has revived doubts about the long-term survival of the euro, nowhere more so than in London, Europe's main financial center and a hotbed of Euroskepticism.

President Klaus Iohannis on Saturday said that Romania's role in the context of the tensions at the eastern border of the European Union (EU) is that of being "a stability and wise political thinking landmark in the area."

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Three activists, former members of the shock protest group Femen, protested topless on Friday in Berlin outside the Bundestag in favor of Greece, at the same time that debate on an extension of the Greek program was taking place in the federal legislature.

By Patrick Donahue and Brian Parkin

German lawmakers approved an extension of Greece?s loan program after Chancellor Angela Merkel?s coalition staved off dissent from bailout-weary members in its own ranks.