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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — New discoveries including gold ornaments and fine pottery at an ancient port city in Cyprus dating back more than 3,000 years indicate that the settlement was one of the Mediterranean’s most important trading posts in the late Bronze Age, an archeologist said Tuesday. Professor Peter M.

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elina Svitolina reached the Wimbledon semifinals by beating top-ranked Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 three months after returning from maternity leave. The 28-year-old Ukrainian gave birth to her daughter in October and returned to the WTA tour in April. Swiatek is a four-time major

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the pro-Russian head of Serbian intelligence. The Treasury Department says Aleksander Vulin is accused of involvement in illegal arms shipments, drug trafficking and misuse of public office. Vulin serves as spy chief for the Balkan state. He previously served as interior

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Protesters in Israel have blocked highways and thronged the country’s main international airport in a day of countrywide demonstrations against the government’s divisive plan to overhaul the judiciary. The demonstrations on Tuesday came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition gave an initial approval to a

By LISA RATHKE and JOHN MINCHILLO Associated Press ANDOVER, Vt. (AP) — A storm that dumped up to two months’ worth of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding Tuesday in communites marooned by water, including the state capital, where a dam just upstream was threatening to

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. Regulators are seeking to ax the deal because they say it will hurt competition. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said in a ruling that

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Poland and Japan have held talks on security, Russia’s war on Ukraine and the strengthening of business ties. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Warsaw on his way to a NATO summit in Lithuania, which borders Poland. The talks focused

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ticking higher Tuesday as Wall Street waits for updates later in the week on inflation and corporate profits. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in midday trading and looks to be on track for another quiet day after a listless Monday. The Dow

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders agreed Tuesday to allow Ukraine to join “when allies agree and conditions are met,” the head of the military alliance said, after President Volodymyr Zelenskky blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd.”

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people. Russia vetoed a compromise resolution that would have extended the

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have evicted a Palestinian family from a contested apartment in Jerusalem’s Old City after a decades-long legal battle. Activists say the Ghaith-Sub Laban family’s removal on Tuesday is part of a wider trend of Israeli settlers encroaching on Palestinian neighborhoods and cementing Israeli control by

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Wages in the U.K. are rising at a record high rate amid stubbornly high inflation. That’s bolstered expectations that interest rates will increase again — to the worry of many homeowners who are seeing their mortgage payments spike. The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that wages,

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — All six people on board a helicopter carrying Mexican tourists have died when it crashed near Mount Everest in Nepal. The chief government administrator in Lamajura says the helicopter crashed on Tuesday morning and rescuers had recovered all the bodies. The aircraft was returning to Kathmandu