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By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia accused Russia on Monday of violating its sovereignty by placing border markers on the edge of the South Ossetia region, leaving part of an international oil pipeline in territory under Russian control. Tbilisi has not controlled South Ossetia or its fellow breakaway region of Abkhazia since fighting a brief war with Moscow in 2008. Russian troops have been installing barbed wire and fences
Villeneuve-la-Garenne (France) (AFP) – French police on Monday were hunting armed robbers who escaped after holding up a store in a shopping mall near Paris, prompting special forces to intervene and seal off the area. The three men — one of whom was thought to be an employee of the shop — burst into the Primark store in Villeneuve-la-Garenne early Monday, said a police source who wished to remain anonymous.
Villeneuve-la-Garenne (France) (AFP) – French police on Monday were hunting armed robbers who escaped after holding up a store in a shopping mall near Paris, prompting special forces to intervene and seal off the area. The three men — one of whom was thought to be an employee of the shop — burst into the Primark store in Villeneuve-la-Garenne early Monday, said a police source who wished to remain anonymous.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest from Greece’s financial crisis (all times local):
Aidan O’Brien is assembling a formidable team for Glorious Goodwood at the end of this month.
Security forces in Burundi said Monday they had arrested around 170 suspected rebels and seized a number of weapons in a crackdown ahead of next week’s presidential elections. The Burundian army spokesman, Colonel Gaspard Baratuza, said the rebels were detained after clashes in the northern provinces of Kayanza and Cibitoke. Provincial governor Aline Maniratunga said around 30 supporters of opposition leader Agathon Rwasa were arrested in the operation.
By Luciana Lopez and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton put the fight for higher wages for everyday Americans at the heart of her economic agenda on Monday and talked tough against Wall Street in the first major policy speech of her White House bid. Clinton said the U.S. economy will only run at full steam when middle-class wages rise steadily along with executive salaries and
The Wisconsin governor is one of seven current or former Republican governors to enter the 2016 race — and the only one to survive a recall election in his own state.
What does it take to get a pardon from President Obama? It’s a question Sala Udin, a former Pittsburgh City Council member and onetime civil rights Freedom Rider, is asking a lot this summer, more than three years after he first asked a president he deeply admires to grant him a pardon for a 44-year-old federal firearms conviction.
The tentative deal includes “serious reforms” and removes an immediate threat that Greece could collapse financially and leave the euro.
