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Canada’s trade unions are committed to establishing a special fund with the Canadian Council for Refugees to help support the settlement of Syrian refugees in Canada. However, they have put significant financial strain on the many Edmonton families who privately sponsored...

German lawmakers on Wednesday approved a third bailout package for Greece, despite substantial opposition within its parliament.

Yes. It’s bad. Panagiotis Lafazanis, the former energy minister and leader of the “Left Platform” faction in Syriza, is forming a new movement aimed at overturning the bailout.

When the Greek parliament voted on the bailout deal, a quarter of Tsipras’ lawmakers voted against him or abstained, leaving his coalition government relying on opposition party support to pass legislation.

“I am resigning because I have now exhausted the mandate which the public gave me in January’s general election”, Tsipras said during his televised address on Thursday night.

Tsipras submitted his resignation after facing the largest rebellion yet within his own Syriza party when a third of his legislators voted against or abstained from voting on austerity bailout measures required to reach a deal with European creditors.

The bill on the rescue deal passed just in time for Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos to head to Brussels to meet his counterparts from the 19-country currency union in the hope of getting their seal of approval as well.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned yesterday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece’s creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in.

Greece’s other political parties want to get rid of Mr. Tsipras and Syriza.

His U-turn in accepting the demands by the country’s creditors led to outrage among hardliners in his Syriza party, with dozens voting against him during the bailout’s ratification in parliament last week.

Tsipras was to make an announcement Thursday night, another government official said, while he was expected to also visit the country’s president – a necessary formality in calling early elections, for which he would have to step down as prime minister. With a...

“Of course there were differences, but we have managed to solve the last issues”, Eurogroup Chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters in Brussels.

The plan still needs approval from eurozone parliaments. But it is risky for Greek PM Alexis Tsipras.

A breakdown showing the number of dissenters within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat-led bloc was scheduled to be released on Wednesday.

Atul Keshap, the new US envoy to Sri Lanka presented his credentials to President Maithripala Sirisena on August 21, the US embassy said.