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Greece will submit a 2020 budget later this year that will fully respect the fiscal targets agreed with its lenders, newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday. Outlining his main policies, Mitsotakis told Greek lawmakers that the budget would not put fiscal targets for 2019 and 2020 at risk. Greece emerged from economic adjustment programmes overseen by its lenders last August but still needs to meet fiscal targets, including a primary budget surplus -- which excludes interest payments on its debt -- of 3.5 percent of annual economic output up to 2022.

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:38:22 -0400

British Airways suspended flights to Cairo for seven days starting on Saturday to allow for an assessment of security there, the airline said in a statement, giving no details about what had prompted the move. "We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment," the statement said. The airline added that it would never operate an aircraft unless it was safe to do so.

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:20:28 -0400

A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of humanity's first footsteps on another world Saturday, gathering in record heat at races and other festivities to commemorate Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Aldrin showed Vice President Mike Pence the launch pad where he flew to the moon in 1969. "We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most historic event in my lifetime, maybe in anybody's lifetime, the landing on the moon," said 10K runner Robert Rocco, 54, of Centerville, Ohio.

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:20:23 -0400

PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand people attended a funeral service in Bosnia on Saturday for 86 Muslims who were slain by Serbs in one of the worst atrocities of the country's 1992-95 war. Relatives of the victims, religious leaders and others gathered at a soccer stadium near the eastern town of Prijedor, standing solemnly behind lines of coffins draped with green cloths. The Serbs later threw bombs onto the bodies, which made identifying the victims difficult.

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:10:46 -0400

A Michigan beauty queen was stripped of her title over comments she made on social media about Muslim women and black people, she said. Executives with Miss World America told Kathy Zhu, the Miss Michigan 2019 winner, that her “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate” posts on social media were in violation of the organization’s rules and conditions, according to email screenshots posted by Zhu on Thursday.

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:08:00 -0400