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Germany is expected to approve a new bailout deal for Greece on Friday, The Telegraph reported.Ukraine has refused to pay for more gas deliveries to Russia, arguing that Gazprom only supplied 40% of the order it promised, The Times wrote.National Rail chief executive Mark Carne has condemned the railway system for looking like a "scrapheap" cluttered with old rails, sleepers and graffiti, wrote The Times.British firm Standard Chartered appointed former JP Morgan executive Bill Winters as its next chief executive on Thursday, said The Wall Street Journal.Ed Miliband has promised to slash university fees from £9,000 to £6,000 by raising £2m a year by curtailing pension tax relief, according to The Guardian.A US probe into Barclays' foreign exchange trading business is holding up a settlement of currency rate-rigging allegations that other authorities are also close to resolving, reported the Financial Times.A 26-year-old British man named Mohammed Emwaz has been identified as Jihadi John, the knife-wielding militant who claimed responsibility for multiple beheadings on video, according to The Guardian.Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has revisited the idea of a post-election deal with SNP in an apparent change of heart, wrote The Times.