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Spain’s Socialists have won the Barcelona mayor’s office after getting help from conservative rivals

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists have received an unexpected boost from its main rival in next month’s national elections after his party won the mayor’s office of Barcelona following a tight vote at city hall. Sánchez’s Socialists took a beating in local and regional elections

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Rescuers are braving snipers as they rush to ferry Ukrainians from Russia-occupied flood zones

By SAMYA KULLAB, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — At last, help came for Vitalii Shpalin. From a distance, he spotted the small Ukrainian rescue boat traversing floodwaters that had submerged the 60-year-old’s entire neighborhood after a catastrophic dam collapse in the country’s embattled south. He and others boarded with

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Collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia to reopen within 2 weeks, governor says

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks, Pennsylvania’s governor said Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical segment of the highway closed to East Coast traffic since last weekend. “We are getting it done

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