Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting in cities across Portugal against government austerity measures.

Huge crowds gathered in the capital Lisbon to demand the government resign.

„Präsident Barack Obama besucht Sankt Petersburg, um am G-20-Gipfel im September teilzunehmen“, heißt es in einer offiziellen Mitteilung des Weißen Hauses.

The two Presidents agreed to work closely on hot-button international topics pertaining to Syria, the Middle East peace process, Iran, North Korea, and ballistic missile defence plans. In discussing the Syrian crisis, the President of Russia noted the need to rapidly bring an end to hostilities. The leaders instructed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry to continue active contacts and to focus on developing possible new initiatives aimed at a political settlement of the crisis.

The Presidents welcomed the substantive and constructive consultations held by Secretary Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov earlier this week in Berlin on implementing the Geneva Action Group framework to enable a political transition in Syria. The two Presidents agreed on the need to advance a political transition to end the violence as soon as possible and the importance of Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov continuing their engagement on Syria. (…)

Finally, the Presidents agreed to hold a bilateral meeting in conjunction with the June G8 Summit in Northern Ireland and President Obama said he looks forward to visiting St. Petersburg for the G-20 meeting in September.

Bei dem Telefonat betonte Putin die Notwendigkeit, dass die Kampfhandlungen in Syrien schnellstmöglich beendet werden. Darüber hinaus einigten sich die beiden Präsidenten darauf, die Zusammenarbeit bei den internationalen Angelegenheiten wie der Nahostregelung, dem Atomstreit mit Nordkorea sowie der Raketenabwehr zu verstärken.

Fo, 86, is best known for his play Accidental Death of an Anarchist, inspired by the death of a man in police custody in 1969, and has long been a leftwing hero in Italy. He publicly backed Grillo this year, co-writing a book on the comedian‘s fledgling political movement and giving him a ringing endorsement at a packed rally in Milan‘s Piazza Duomo days before the election.

Until a few weeks ago, Ivana Simeoni, 62, was a telephone operator for the emergency services in Latina, south of Rome. Within days she’ll enter the opulent Palazzo Madama as a Senator for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by the comedian-turned-activist Beppe Grillo.

Meet the Grillini. They are the 162 very ordinary people who are now regarded with trepidation by financial markets and world leaders after this week‘s Italian election failed to produce a government.

Beppe Grillo, whose anti-establishment party unexpectedly captured a quarter of the vote in Italy‘s inconclusive elections, wants to renegotiate his crisis-hit country‘s debt, according to a German report on Saturday.

In an interview with a German magazine published on Saturday, Mr Grillo said that “if conditions do not change” Italy “will want” to leave the euro and return to its former national currency.

The 64-year-old comic-turned-political activist also said Italy needs to renegotiate its €2 trillion debt.

Wie griechische Medien nahelegen, kam das Angebot aus Deutschland – von Finanzminister Schäuble.

“The issue that led to the clash with the troika at the end of August 2011 was that we could not accept anymore measures that would blindly feed the recession and unemployment,” said Venizelos.

“Then we received proposals to receive funding so there would be a velvet exit from the euro. We rejected them.”

Venizelos told some 4,000 delegates at the Peace and Friendship Stadium that shortly after he was appointed finance minister in 2011, he had a severe disagreement with visiting troika officials that led to a proposal for Greece to leave the euro.

The M5S will vote in Parliament for each law that corresponds to its manifesto. It will not form alliances. This commitment: “The 5 Star MoVement parliamentarians will not form associations with other parties or coalitions or groups except for voting on the points it agrees with” is in the Code of behaviour for elected spokespersons of the 5 Star MoVement in Parliament. It’s been signed by all the candidates and made public to voters before the elections. These rules were known to everyone, including the politburo of the PDminus. If the PDminusL wants to transform the Lower House and the Senate into a Vietnam, the M5S is certainly not going to stand still and watch.

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The announcement was made by Sabbahi, former presidential candidate and leader of the Nasserist left, in an interview with the television network ONTV.