Euro zone members have given Greece until the end of the week to come up with a proposal for sweeping reforms in return for loans that will keep the country from crashing out of Europe's currency bloc and into economic ruin.

Iran and major powers gave themselves at least until July 9 to negotiate an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, but a source from one of the powers said on July 7 they had to wrap up in the next 48 hours.

The ASEAN Secretariat has announced a new programme of work to strengthen close coordination between the Australia-Asia Programme to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP) and ASEAN member countries and the Secretariat.

President Barack Obama pledged to increase US support for the moderate opposition in Syria's civil war on July 6 and said the United States needed to do more at home to prevent attacks and combat Islamic State efforts to recruit followers.

Nearly 100 people were killed on July 6 in air strikes across Yemen, the Houthi-run state news agency reported, as a Saudi-led coalition stepped up attacks that are likely to weigh on efforts to broker a humanitarian truce.

Euclid Tsakalotos, the mild-tempered professor who was appointed as Greece's new finance minister on July 6, is a clear change in style from his combative predecessor Yanis Varoufakis.

Greece's outspoken finance minister resigned on July 6, removing a major obstacle to any deal to keep Athens in the euro zone after Greeks voted resoundingly to back the government in rejecting the austerity terms of a bailout.

Islamic State suicide bombers and fighters attacked the center of Iraq's northern oil refinery town of Baiji overnight, forcing the army and Shi'ite fighters to pull back, military sources and the local mayor said on July 5.

An Iranian nuclear agreement is possible this week if Iran makes the "hard choices" necessary, but if not, the United States stands ready to walk away from the negotiations, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on July 5.

(VOV)- The General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that the investigation on whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons or not is expected to complete late this year with Iran’s cooperation.