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The Greek crisis has unquestionably generated numerous media headlines over the past 5 years. As crunch time approaches, however, it seems it has gone beyond the boundaries of our earth, literally. US astronaut Scott Kelly, who is stationed on the International Space Station, tweeted his best wishes to Greece for today’s Eurozone summit.

Some of the Uighurs deported to China last week from Thailand had planned to go to Syria and Iraq to carry out jihad, state television said, showing pictures of them being bundled out of an aircraft with black hoods over their heads. 

Chinese authorities have widened a crackdown on human rights groups, detaining or questioning more than 50 lawyers and activists in a sweep over the past few days, rights groups say. 

Citing the need to buttress national security and stability, President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened government control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012. 

World powers talked deep into the night on July 11 seeking to break a deadlock in marathon negotiations with Iran and strike a historic deal to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Bosnia and Herzegovina marks on Saturday the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

More than 8000 Bosnian Mulsim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the worst war crime in Europe since the end of the Second World War.

Centrist Potami (River) leader Stavros Theodorakis was received in Brussels on Friday by EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for a nearly two-hour meeting.

In statements afterwards, Theodorakis told reporters that Juncker believes the last Greek proposal is a “sufficient basis for negotiations”.

Egyptian-born actor Omar Sharif, who starred in "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia", died on July 10 in Cairo aged 83, his London-based agent said.

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The divisive Confederate flag came down on July 10 at South Carolina's legislature, drawing a line under a furor rekindled last month by the murder of nine black churchgoers by a young white supremacist.

?Go Set a Watchman,? the much-anticipated second novel by ?To Kill a Mockingbird? author Harper Lee, is the most pre-ordered print title on Amazon.com since the last book in the ?Harry Potter? series, Amazon said on July 9. 

A brief period of high profitability for the world?s oil refineries is likely to come to an end as quickly as it began, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on July 10.