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Athens’ frustrated talks with creditors in the face of looming financial obligations and with state coffers running on empty generated, as expected, increased “doom and gloom” media reports focusing on the “Greek crisis”.

The Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said on June 14 a coalition could well be formed in the first round of negotiations between the political parties.

"How coalitions are formed depends on the dialog between the parties. Our president [Recep Tayyip Erdo?an] will first appoint our prime minister [Ahmet Davuto?lu] for that," Kurtulmu? told CNN Türk.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy head Numan Kurtulmu? said on June 14 a coalition could well be formed in the first round of negotiations between the political parties.

"How coalitions are formed depends on the dialog between the parties. Our president [Recep Tayyip Erdo?an] will first appoint our prime minister [Ahmet Davuto?lu] for that," Kurtulmu? told CNN Türk.

It’s not enough that some “netizens” spend countless hours on Facebook, now the world’s pre-eminent social media site has unveiled a “lite” version of itself, debuting a new app for Android that only takes up 1 MB of storage space.
The normal Facebook app takes up about 25 MB of storage space.

CNN paid tribute to the weather-beaten fishermen of the island of Paros through the work of Austrian photographer Christian Stemper. For five years, the Austrian has documented the lives of the men who care about nothing more than the sea and fish.

The BBC apologised on Wednesday for accidentally setting off Twitter rumours that Queen Elizabeth had been hospitalized.

Sepp Blatter, who is to resign as FIFA President, is a focus of a federal corruption investigation, US media outlets quote officials as saying.

The new came just hours after Blatter announced he wound step down.

The United States is in talks with Qatar on the status of five Taliban figures who may be free to return to Afghanistan a year after their release in a US prisoner swap, the head of the CIA said May 31. 

"I want to make sure that they're not going to be allowed to return to the fight," Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan said on CBS talk show "Face the Nation."  

Greece's creditors must "get their act together" and help produce a new loan deal for the cash-strapped country, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Tuesday.

"It's about time the institutions, in particular the IMF, get their act together, and come to an agreement with us," the outspoken Varoufakis told CNN.

Vice President Joe Biden reassured Iraq's government on May 25 of US support in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), telephoning Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi with thanks for "the enormous sacrifice and bravery of Iraqi forces" one day after Defense Secretary Ash Carter questioned the Iraqi military commitment.