LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - Eurozone finance ministers will meet in Brussels on Thursday for talks on Greece, the head of the Eurogroup said Thursday as Athens neared a deal on programme to avert default.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Angry protesters on at least two outlying islands in the Maldives attacked police stations and set fire to government buildings on Wednesday, officials told AFP.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants the search for a solution to the Syrian crisis to continue, including within the United Nations Security Council, the Kremlin said Wednesday.

MOGADISHU (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people Wednesday in the war-torn Somali capital Mogadishu when he detonated an explosive-laden vehicle near the presidential palace, officials said.

ATHENS (AFP) - Greece's coalition leaders on Wednesday arrived at Prime Minister Lucas Papademos' official residence for a final bout of talks on radical budget cuts and a debt deal to avert default.