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Scholz party paves way for new center-right mayor in Berlin

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have narrowly approved a local coalition deal in Berlin with Germany’s main center-right opposition party. It’s a decision that should pave the way for the capital’s first conservative mayor in more than two decades. The Social Democrats’ Berlin branch said Sunday

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Baltics condemn China envoy’s stance on ex-Soviet nations

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The three Baltic states have strongly condemned comments by China’s envoy to France who appeared to say in a recent French television interview that the former Soviet republics aren’t sovereign nations. The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in separate announcements late Saturday deemed statements by

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