Europe

Secretary of State John Kerry is facing backlash for comments he made Tuesday in Paris comparing the terrorist attack earlier this year on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo to the ones carried out across the city last Friday.

Greece on Thursday named Vassiliki Thanou Christopoulou, head of the country's Supreme Court, as interim prime minister, with the task of leading the country to an election.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Paris on Monday afternoon to discuss the result of the Greek referendum with French President Francois Hollande, a German government spokesman said on Sunday.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday he would respect a potential Greek decision to stick to the path of austerity as prescribed by foreign creditors, but his government would not be the one to carry it out.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will not resign and will probably reshuffle the cabinet after parliament votes on a bailout package on Wednesday evening, a government official said on Tuesday.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday called a referendum on July 5 whether the country should accept or reject a bailout agreement offered by creditors.

The addition of former CIA official Michael Morell comes as the tire company is grappling with heated union tensions in France.

European shares rose and German bond futures dipped as the re-election of Italy's president eased a political crisis. The yen fell after the G20 accepted Japan's bold stimulus policy.

A closely-watched gauge of German investor confidence plummeted in April from the month before, undershooting expectations, as the eurozone's debt crisis flared up.

Standard & Poor's cut the Netherlands' credit rating on Friday, leaving just three eurozone countries with the gold standard rating.

The European Central Bank slashed its main refinancing rate by 0.25 percentage point to a record low of 0.25%, surprising economists.

The buyout comes just 15 months after the British vacuum pump maker's IPO.

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