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Analysts say much of it is caused by fires started in the massive plantations that dot the island of Sumatra.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth told the Senate Armed Services Committee that only between 100 and 120 Syrian fighters were in training.

They were taken to processing centers before they were allowed to leave Hungary.

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

Greece’s main opposition party launched efforts to form a new government Friday following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ resignation, but made no progress in what appears a doomed task – which will pave the way for another potentially destabilizing election.

The country is due to contribute some 10.1 billion euros ($11.14 billion) of the 86 billion-euro package for Greece.

“The political mandate of the January 25 elections has exhausted its limits and now the Greek people have to have their say”, Tsipras said in a televised address Thursday night.

A yes vote from the German parliament is not in doubt, although there have been nagging questions for chancellor Angela Merkel about divisions within her own conservative ranks.

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

In a live televised address to the nation, the 41-year-old premier said he had worked hard to secure the best possible rescue package for his country, but he now needed a clear new mandate from the Greek people after it cost him his parliamentary majority.

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election. Tsipras is listening to advice from government colleagues who are recommending that the polls should be held within September as well as those advocating that the snap...

Interrupting their holidays for the second time this summer to cast ballots on a Greek rescue, lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house approved the rescue plan by 453 votes to 113.

In an announcement on national Greek television, seven months after taking office on the promise of rolling back austerity and staunchly opposed to additional bailouts from Europe, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has resigned.

The article referred to the deal as being the “first fire sale under a SYRIZA government” and a “large present to [Angela] Merkel and [Wolfgang] Schaeuble, clearly in return for their services in the formation of the new, deplorable memorandum”.

A Greek minister gave on Monday the strongest indication yet that the government will call a confidence vote following a rebellion among lawmakers from the ruling Syriza party over the country’s new bailout deal.