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Despite having secured a resounding victory in the weekend referendum, Greece s finance ministe
stanley cup r Yanis Varoufakis resigned on Monday. Varoufakis rose to fame a
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stanley cup nfamy this year for his urban-cool look, his abrasive style and acerbic attacks on austerity.In a shock announcement just hours after Sunday s referendum results on bailout terms were announced, Varoufakis said he was quitting to help Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in ensuing negotiations with creditors. Soon after the announcement of the referendum results, I was made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted partners , for my... absence from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement. For this reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today, Varoufakis said on his blog.During the past five months of negotiations between Athens and its international creditors, the self-described erratic Marxist seemed more at ease chatting with unemployed anarchists than with fellow European finance ministers, who often groaned about his blunt negotiating tactics.European Economic Affairs chief Pierre Moscovici commented that Varoufakis is a smart person, not always easy, but smart. His straight-talking style produced notable moments including his characterisation of the austerity imposed on Greece as fiscal waterboarding .After negotiations broke down between Greece and its creditors, Varoufakis slammed Europe s governance Lwod In Colombia, world s smallest man clings to short-lived title
The United States remarks over Sri Lanka s culpability in the killings of civilians during the final stages of the civil war might have come late but it s by far the strongest since the conflict ended in May, 2009. HT Image In its sharpest indictment of Sri Lanka for its alleged involvement in war crimes, the US said on
adidas campus Tuesday that the island nation could face a war crimes tribunal over the deaths of many thousands of civilians during the final months of war against the Tamil Tigers. The warning came from US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert Bl
adidas campus ake, who served as US ambassador in Sri Lanka, as the UN Human Rights Council UNHRC was beginning its meeting Geneva. Blake said Sri Lanka could face a forced international investigation. It s important to say that if Sri Lanka is not willing to meet international standards regarding these matters, there would be pressure to appoint an international commission to look into these things, Blake told AFP . Blake said, the UN has estimated that many thousands of civilians were killed in the final few months of the war. During the 2010 meeting of the UNHRC, Colombo had avoided being condemned because of the support of permanent Security Council members like China, Russia and ally, India. The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime has maintained that the call for an international investigation was instig
stanley cup ated by the powerful Tamil diaspora where pro-LTTE remnants remain active. And his regime has
