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GREEK CRISIS EXPOSES CRACKS IN THE EUROZONE

Knock-down-drag-out marathon negotiating sessions July 11-12 on a third multibillion-euro bailout for Greece revealed deep splits within the common currency zone. Once viewed as irreversible, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble...

TSIPRAS BIT THE HAND THAT FED GREECE

Biting the hand that feeds him, 40-year-old Greek Prime Minister picked the wrong time for his adolescent revolt, pitting himself against 60-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Rising quickly the helm of the Helenic Republic Jan. 26, Tsipras’ leftist Syriza...

TRUMP’S BIG SPLASH WITH GOP’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT CROWD

Announcing for president June 16, 69-nine-year-old real estate tycoon and reality TV star Donald Trump rocked the GOP landscape, ripping illegal Mexican immigrants for being murders and rapists. Once viewed as a “carnival barker,” Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric won...

IRAN MARKS QUDS DAY RIPPING ISRAEL AND SAUDIS

Burning effigies of Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards celebrated “Quds” [Jerusalem] Day, demonstrating the late Ayatollah’s Ruhollah Khomenei’s dream of destroying Israel and returning Palestinians to the Promised Land. Khomenei’s Shiite Muslim sect...

CLIPPERS’ JORDAN RENEGES ON VERBAL TO CUBAN

Reneging on a verbal agreement with 56-year-old NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, 26-year-old free agent Deandre Jordan found himself caught in a media firestorm. When he shocked the Clippers July 3 agreeing verbally to a four-year $80 million max deal with the...