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Conservative party of Greek prime minister in big election lead, to seek outright majority

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The conservative party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a landslide election victory Sunday but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government outright. The prime minister has indicated he will seek a second election in a bid to consolidate his

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‘Exhaust them’: Why Ukraine has fought Russia for every inch of Bakhmut, despite high cost

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The nine-month battle for Bakhmut has destroyed the 400-year-old city in eastern Ukraine and killed tens of thousands of people in a mutually devastating demonstration of Ukraine’s strategy of exhausting the Russian military. The fog of war made it impossible to confirm the situation on the

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Greek elections: Conservative party of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis leads with wide margin

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Official results from more than 60% of polling stations counted in Greece’s election show the governing conservatives of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with a huge lead over the left-wing opposition party. However, the new electoral law under which the vote was held means

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Biden, McCarthy to meet Monday for debt ceiling talks as default deadline looms

By STEPHEN GROVES, ZEKE MILLER and, JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet in person Monday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy about averting an economy-wrecking federal default, and the Republican leader expressed cautious optimism about a possible debt ceiling compromise as Washington races to raise America’s borrowing limit before the

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Greek elections: Conservative party in lead but unlikely to form government outright

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Exit polls in Greece’s parliamentary elections show Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative party is in the lead but is unlikely to win enough seats in parliament to form a government outright. If confirmed by official results, Mitsotakis will have to seek coalition partners

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China tells tech manufacturers to stop using Micron chips, stepping up feud with United States

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China’s government on Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc. Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that pose hazards to

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Civil rights groups warn tourists about Florida in wake of ‘hostile’ laws

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”

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