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GREECE

Stock exchange

to reopen Monday

Greece's government announced that the Athens Stock Exchange would reopen Monday, a big step toward normalcy as talks with international creditors shifted into high gear.

The exchange has been closed since June 29, when the government imposed capital controls to prevent a banking collapse.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos signed the order Friday that also includes restrictions for Greece-based traders for an unspecified time period. A 60-euro limit on cash-machine withdrawals will remain in place.

Tsakalotos met with lead negotiators from the European Union and International Monetary Fund to start negotiations for a third bailout worth 85 billion euros ($93 billion), following several days of preparatory meetings among lower-level officials. - AP

GERMANY

Unfit for WWII trial

German prosecutors have shelved their Nazi war-crimes investigation of a retired Minnesota carpenter whom the Associated Press exposed as a former commander in an SS-led unit, saying Friday that the 96-year-old is not fit for trial. The AP established that Michael Karkoc commanded a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion accused of burning villages filled with women and children. - AP

TAIWAN

Students protesting

Hundreds of Taiwanese students were locked in a standoff with authorities in Taipei on Friday after storming the national legislature and surrounding the Education Ministry in a protest over new curriculum guidelines. Anguished by the apparent suicide of one protester on Thursday, the demonstrators were demanding the resignation of the education minister. - L.A. Times