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The World at One
BBC Radio 4
Ten years ago the first tremors of the banking crisis were felt when the bank BNP Paribas in France, issued a warning about the US mortgage market.
The financial crash led to recession in many countries around the world and the destruction of many livelihoods, but did it also signal the collapse of capitalism itself?
The socialist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told Radio 4's The World at One that the first signs of the crash showed a year after 2007. He said: "What crashed and burnt in 2008 was the post-war mechanism by which global capitalism reproduced and stabilised itself."
Germany had halted returns because of the precarious conditions for migrants in Greece.
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Read moreMigrants describe fleeing torture by the militant group - only to find scant help while in detention on Lesbos.
He is said to be part of a gang accused of laundering billions through the digital currency.
Read moreAndrew Walker
BBC World Service economics correspondent
The country's Debt Management Agency announces plans to sell bonds that will repaid in five years.
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BBC Wales News
Keen to understand the human perspective behind the headlines, Nia Medi decided to forgo a usual summer holiday and instead offer help to refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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