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WORLD NEWSTuesday 24 November 2015
Greece cleared to get next batch of bailout loans Blast at Japan’s
controversial war
D. GATOPOULOS Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, attends a parliamentary session in Athens. Greece shrine ‘foul play’
P. PYLAS
Associated Press was formally cleared Monday to get the next batch of bailout loans due from its third financial YURI KAGEYAMA
ATHENS, Greece (AP) Associated Press
— Greece was formally rescue. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) TOKYO (AP) — An explosion
cleared Monday to get Monday damaged a pub-
the next batch of bailout five seats to three. ministers that the Greek but its current involvement lic restroom at a controver-
loans due from its third fi- The Greek government, led government has indicated ends early next year. sial shrine in Tokyo that hon-
nancial rescue after the by Prime Minister Alexis Tsip- that it will be implement a The IMF, he said, wants ors Japanese war dead,
cash-strapped country im- ras, still faces a laundry list second set of milestones Greece to implement all with police suspecting foul
plemented a series of eco- of reforms to unlock further by mid-December. Any the so-called milestones, play. No one was injured.
nomic reform measures funds from the three-year delaying tactics, he said, including pension reforms, The Yasukuni shrine, which
that European creditors bailout, which was agreed would “cause a lot of un- and more budget mea- honors 2.5 million Japa-
had demanded. in the summer. Topping the necessary, unwanted con- sures to make sure that the nese war dead, including
The country will get a 2 bil- next list is a further overhaul cerns inside and outside Greek budget remains on executed war criminals,
lion-euro ($2.1 billion) pay- of the national pension sys- Greece.” track. The IMF has also in- has been the target of criti-
ment on Tuesday, money tem. Dijsselbloem also said the dicated it wants Greece’s cism from China and South
that will be used to meet Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the IMF was willing to extend its debt burden to be re- Korea, which suffered from
debt service commit- eurozone’s top official told involvement in the Greek duced and Dijsselbloem Japan’s World War II atroci-
ments, clear arrears and reporters in Brussels at the bailout. It’s been a part- confirmed that discussions ties and aggression.
co-fund projects with the conclusion of a meeting ner since Greece first got on that should pick up in Tokyo police said in a state-
European Union. of the bloc’s 19 finance bailed out in May 2010 earnest early next year.q ment that they received
The crippled Greek banks, a call about an explosion
which are reeling from lim- and smoke at Yasukuni.
its on money transfers and They said they suspected
another likely recession, a “guerrilla” attack, imply-
can also soon start claim- ing some kind of subversive
ing money from a separate activity, but declined to
10 billion-euro pot of mon- elaborate.
ey available. Firefighters were also called
The formal approval came to the scene and found the
after Greece’s parliament ceiling and walls of the rest-
last week backed new room had been damaged,
austerity measures, includ- said an official at the To-
ing higher taxes on wine kyo Fire Department, who
and road use as well as spoke on condition of ano-
more limited protection for nymity. But the fire was out
distressed mortgage hold- by the time they arrived.
ers. Opposition to the latest It was unclear what caused
measures, however, cut the explosion, but a tim-
the leftwing government’s ing device and wirings
majority in parliament from were found near the spot
of the explosion, accord-
ing to Kyodo News service.
US military helicopter crashes in S.Korea, killing 2 Police will be reviewing
footage on security cam-
HYUNG-JIN KIM on condition of anonymity cause of the accident was rea’s Yonhap news agency eras for clues, TBS TV news
Associated Press because he wasn’t autho- under investigation. cited unidentified officials said. Footage on TV Asahi
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) rized to speak to the media “We offer our heartfelt as saying the helicopter showed a bomb squad in
— A U.S. military helicopter about the accident. prayers and condolences may have hit high-voltage protective gear entering
crashed in South Korea dur- Two bodies recovered from to the families of the sol- power lines or a near- the shrine premises.
ing a routine training mis- the helicopter were severe- diers involved in this tragic by steel tower because The person in charge of
sion Monday, killing both pi- ly damaged and officials incident,”Lt. Col. Mark Gil- wires were found near the media at Yasukuni was not
lots on board, the U.S. Army couldn’t immediately con- lespie, deputy commander crashed aircraft and the immediately available for
and South Korean police firm their identities, the offi- of 2nd Combat Aviation upper part of the tower was comment.
said. The AH-64 Apache he- cer said. He said there were Brigade, said in a U.S. Army damaged. About 28,500 The shrine is a focal point
licopter crashed on a road no reports of casualties on statement. It said the identi- U.S. troops are stationed in for lingering tensions with
in Wonju, about 130 kilome- the ground. The U.S. Army ties of the two pilots will be South Korea as deterrence Japan’s neighbors over the
ters (80 miles) east of Seoul, in South Korea later con- withheld pending notifica- against possible aggression country’s aggression be-
a Wonju police officer said firmed the crash, saying the tion of next of kin. South Ko- from North Korea.q fore and during World War
II.q
