Greek top negotiator in line to become finance minister

Greece's chief negotiator in aid talks with international creditors, Euclid Tsakalotos, is the government's top candidate to become finance minister following the resignation on Monday of Yanis Varoufakis, a senior government official said.

Varoufakis' successor is due to be named after a meeting of political leaders that got under way at 10 am. (0700 GMT).

Image: French Finance Minister Michel Sapin (centre) speaks with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (left) and Chief Economics Spokesman of the Government of Greece Euclid Tsakalotos (right) prior to a Eurozone finance ministers emergency meeting in Brussels, Belgium, June 24, 2015. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters