09-08-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com

Greece and creditors 'close' to deal on third bailout

Greece and its creditors continued marathon talks into Sunday night with both sides indicating that the terms of a third bailout were close to being finalised. The finance and economy ministers, Euclid Tsakalotos and Giorgos Stathakis, were back at the negotiating table with the ECB, the International Monetary Fund and the European Stability Mechanism at 2:00 pm (1100 GMT) and were still talking eight hours later. A speedy accord would allow the bailout to kick in before the August 20 debt repay
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