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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's employment minister is suggesting that leaving the eurozone would be the worst possible option for the country. Rania Antonopoulos tells the BBC that there's still time to get a deal. But with Greece's future hanging in the balance, the country is running out of cash and is at risk of a financial crash. And Greece's finance minister stepped down after yesterday Greek voters rejected a proposal from the country's creditors for more austerity measures in return for more rescue loans.
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi Russian-made fighter jet has accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood, killing at least 12 people on the ground. Iraqi officials say the plane — one of several used by Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State group — was returning to base when the accident happened. A military spokesman says a technical failure caused the jet to malfunction and drop the bomb, which hit a number of houses in the Iraqi capital's eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad. Three children are among those killed.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Dozens of Afghans are rallying to denounce last week's court ruling that overturned the death sentences for four men convicted for taking part in the mob killing of a woman they mistakenly believed had burned the Quran. The woman was beaten and her body was burned as many men in the crowd recorded the attack on their cell phones. The protesters, mostly members of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan and women activists, staged today's protest outside of the same shrine where Farkhunda Malikzada was killed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers return to Columbia this week, and they'll get their first test in coming up with a plan to bring down the Confederate flag. Several bills have been filed, but they don't spell out the process of taking down the flag that's flown over some part of the Statehouse for more than 50 years.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man arrested in the fatal shooting of a woman at a San Francisco pier admits in a jailhouse interview that he shot her, but says it was an accident. 45-year-old Francisco Sanchez tells KGO-TV that he found a gun wrapped inside a shirt while he was sitting on a bench at the pier and smoking a cigarette. He says heard three shots go off. Killed was 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle, who was out for an evening stroll last Wednesday. Sanchez is in the United States illegally, has seven felony convictions and had been deported to his native Mexico five times.
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