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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Morning Digest: Greek PM Tsipras in Brussels as clock ticks on EU bailout

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02/12/2015

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Greek PM Tsipras in Brussels as clock ticks on EU bailout

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greece's radical new prime minister Alexis Tsipras was in Brussels on Thursday to lay out his case for more financial help to fellow EU leaders following finance ministers' failure to narrow differences overnight..

Ceasefire agreed for eastern Ukraine after Minsk summit

MINSK (Reuters) - 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..

Swedish quantitative easing surprise, Russia-Ukraine deal lift gloom

LONDON (Reuters) - A surprisingly aggressive dose of monetary stimulus from Sweden's central bank on Thursday injected life back into world markets which had been numbed by the stalemate in talks between Greece and its euro zone creditors..

NBC's 'Nightly News' pledges to earn viewers' trust after Williams' suspension

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acknowledging it was "an enormously difficult story" to report, "NBC Nightly News" aired a segment on its broadcast on Wednesday about the six-month suspension of its anchor Brian Williams and pledged to make itself worthy of viewers' trust..

Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian dead at 84

(Reuters) - Jerry Tarkanian, a colorful, towel-chomping Hall of Fame basketball coach who transformed once-obscure University of Nevada-Las Vegas into a national powerhouse and won an NCAA title, died on Wednesday at age 84..

European business group slams China's Internet controls

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Internet curbs are isolating it from the world and having a "highly detrimental" impact on business, a European lobby said on Thursday, in an unusually strong statement by a foreign business chamber..

SpaceX rocket blasts off to put weather satellite into deep space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket blasted off on Wednesday to put a U.S. satellite into deep space, where it will keep tabs on solar storms and image Earth from nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million km) away..

India's Modi appalled by temple built to worship him

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was appalled that some of his fans had built a temple to deify him, adding that such an act contradicted tradition..