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Greek PM says differences between lenders delaying bailout review: paper

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday that differences between the country's international lenders over its pension reform plans are delaying the first review of its latest financial bailout. The government has faced widespread protests over its reform plans however, as austerity-weary Greeks push back against yet more cuts to the country's welfare system. “There are differences among the lenders on Greece's pension reform that are delaying the whole process,…

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Iran marks comeback with talks to buy 160 European planes

By Tim Hepher TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran unveiled an expanded shopping list for more than 160 European planes – including 8 superjumbos – and dangled another big order in front of Boeing at Tehran's first major post-sanctions business gathering on Sunday. In a sign of Tehran's determination to compete with established …

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Desperate in Davos: policymakers struggle for answers

By Noah Barkin DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Angela Merkel was missing from Davos this year, but the German leader's optimistic mantra “we can do this” echoed through the snowy resort in the Swiss Alps. Beneath the veneer of can-do optimism at the World Economic Forum, however, was a creeping concern that the politicians, diplomats and central bankers who flock each year to this gathering of the…

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