GREECE-BAILOUT

ATHENS, Greece — Greece is to present a draft bill of reforms to creditors, hoping for approval which would pave the way for unlocking vitally needed bailout funds. The draft bill is expected to include measures proposed by Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis during the government's negotiations, which have dragged on for more than three months. 

IRAN-GULF INCIDENT

BERLIN — The operator of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel boarded by Iranian forces as it was traversing the Strait of Hormuz says it has confirmed the crew is safe but that the company is still trying to determine why the ship was seized the previous day by Iran..

EUROPE-GAY BLOOD DONORS

PARIS — The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that EU governments may ban gay men from ever donating blood, but only under strict conditions. 

EUROPE-MIGRANTS

BRUSSELS —European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says an emergency search-and-rescue mission in the Mediterranean should never have been phased out and commitments made by EU leaders last week "were inferior to the ambitions that we should have." 

UKRAINE-CHERNOBYL-FIRE

KIEV, Ukraine — There has been no change in background radiation levels in the Ukrainian capital as a result of nighttime fires in woodlands in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday.

BRITAIN-EARNS-BARCLAYS

LONDON — Barclays sets aside an additional 800 million pounds ($1.2 billion) to cover the cost of allegations that it manipulated foreign exchange markets as Britain's second-biggest bank seeks to put the scandals of the past behind it. Barclays says the provisions helped push first-quarter net income down 52 percent to 465 million pounds. 

NETHERLANDS-SREBRENICA-

ARNHEM, Netherlands — A Dutch court has ruled that a retired general who commanded Dutch peacekeepers in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb fighters overran the town and massacred some 8,000 Muslim men should not be prosecuted. 

FRANCE-DEFENSE

PARIS — French president Francois Hollande has decided to increase the military budget by 3.8 billion euros ($4.2 billion) between now and 2019 to allow troops to fulfill their anti-terror mission. 

NORWAY-CLIMATE

STOCKHOLM — Norway's finance minister says she has doubts that global warming is man-made — position seemingly at odds with Norway's official position in U.N. climate talks.