Eurozone seals second Greek bailout after 'marathon' talks
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:57
After hours of talks, eurozone officials said ministers had nailed measures to cut Greece's debt to around 121 per cent of gross domestic product by 2020, close to their original target of 120, after negotiators for private bondholders offered to accept a bigger loss to help plug the funding gap.
Newer news items:
- Clinton visits North Africa on Syria diplomacy mission
- Nuclear talks with Iran have failed, says UN watchdog
- Rudd resignation signals showdown with Gillard in Oz
- Baba Amr neighbourhood in Homs targeted by shelling
- Monks exorcise ghosts ahead of Tibetan New Year
Older news items:
- Scientists resurrect Ice Age plant after 30,000 years in deep freeze
- Nato general pledges 'thorough investigation' after alleged Koran desecrations
- Robert Mugabe: I have died more times than Jesus Christ
- Girls at Zimbabwe school 'attacked by goblins'
- Afghanistan erupts over Koran 'burning'
- Mercury astronaut John Glenn recalls first orbit flight
- Greece bail-out allows Europe to 'move on', says Chancellor
- Orangutans to have special screening of 'Born to be Wild'
- Eurozone agrees €130bn bailout for Greece
- Silvio Berlusconi's crooning gets him in trouble with Italian rapper
- How the Yakuza went nuclear
- Lion 'on a rampage' kills two in Nigeria
- Japan tsunami anniversary: Fukushima nuclear plant opened to journalists
- Diplomatic row as India arrests Italians 'for shooting fishermen they thought were pirates'
- Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2012: the second night of parades in the Sambadrome
- China's high-speed rail project runs out of steam
- Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' to fetch $80 million at auction
- Debt crisis and Greek bail-out deal: live
- Palestinian ends record 66-day hunger strike as Israel agrees to set him free
- 'Loss aversion' studies point the way for gambling addicts
- UN team in Iran for 'make or break' nuclear inspection
- French cops arrest Strauss-Kahn over sex ring allegations
- Free of Saleh, Yemen votes -- with just one candidate
- Man who survived two months in snowbound car 'had lived in forest since last summer'
- Northern lights and volcanoes in Iceland captured by British photographer
Important Links
- Political News
- Political History of Ghana
- Political System of Ghana
- Information Computer Technology News
- Sports and Entertainment News
- Ghana Education
- Ghana Health
- Ghana Travel and Tourism
- Business in Ghana
- Jerry John Rawlings
- JJ Rawlings
- Ghana Currency
- National Democratic Congress NDC
- New Patroitic Party NPP
- Convention Peoples Party CPP
- National Youth Employment Program
- Africa Politics
- World Politics
- Ghana Religion
News
World News Today
Advertise Here
Local News
Sponsored Ads
Socialise with us
Current News
- Dukan Diet guru Pierre Dukan struck off French medical register 'at own request'
- Ratko Mladic trial: Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic the other high profile war criminals
- Pictures of Sarajevo 15 years ago and today show how the city has changed
- Ratko Mladic trial: with a clap and a cut-throat gesture, the 'Butcher of Bosnia' faces justice
- Ratko Mladic trial: how the ICTY works
- Ratko Mladic plotted to 'raze Sarajevo to the ground'
- Russia: police forcibly disperse protesters at anti-Putin camp
- Prosecutors to detail the horrors of Srebrenica at Mladic trial
- Spain rejects calls to negotiate with ETA
- British tourist dies climbing Mt Vesuvius
- Queen Sofia to snub Diamond Jubilee lunch over Gibraltar row
- Francois Hollande chooses first cabinet as Martine Aubry is snubbed
- Francesco Schettino 'unfit' to command Costa Concordia
- Ratko Mladic trial: act of genocide in Srebrenica caught on film
- Mladic appaluds himself as court addresses Srebrenica