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Tsipras to hold talks with Merkel, Hollande on Friday - official


    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Friday, a day after after euro zone finance ministers failed to clinch a cash-for-reform deal, a Greek government official said.

    Merkel, Hollande and Tsipras are in Brussels for a regular summit of European Union leaders.

    Euro zone finance ministers will meet again in Brussels on Saturday to try to solve the crisis before the deadline on a 1.6 billion euro ($1.79 billion) repayment to the IMF that Greece needs to make by June 30.

    ($1 = 0.8920 euros)

    (Reporting by Renee Maltezou; Writing by Ingrid Melander)