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(Reuters) -An earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude struck off the northern California shore on Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), causing no reported damage or injuries. The USGS said the quake occurred at a depth of 10km (6 miles) and took place 108 km (67 miles) west of Petrolia, a community of about 1,000 people in rural Humboldt County. A handful of other towns in the sparsely populated region […]

ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Club professional Michael Block’s fairytale PGA Championship reached new heights as he made a hole-in-one late in his final round on Sunday that produced the loudest roar of the week at Oak Hill. The tee shot at the par-three 15th by Block, one of 20 teaching professionals in the field at Oak Hill, soared into the air and then slammed straight into the cup without […]

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece’s conservative New Democracy party achieved a crushing victory in a national election on Sunday, official results showed. New Democracy had a lead of 40.8% of the vote based on 94.3% of the votes counted versus 20.1% for the leftist Syriza party, but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on its own. Following are the official results released by the Interior Ministry. PARTIES […]

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece’s conservative New Democracy party achieved a crushing victory in a national election on Sunday, official results showed. New Democracy had a lead of 40.8% of the vote based on 94.3% of the votes counted versus 20.1% for the leftist Syriza party, but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on its own. Following are the official results released by the Interior Ministry. PARTIES […]

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece’s conservative New Democracy party was on course for a crushing victory in a national election on Sunday, official results showed. New Democracy had a lead of 40.8% of the vote based on 80% of the votes counted versus 20.1% for the leftist Syriza party. Following are the official results released by the Interior Ministry. PARTIES VOTES% ND 40.8 SYRIZA 20.1 PASOK 11.7 KKE 7.1 EL 4.5 Other […]

By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece’s ruling New Democracy party stormed to a crushing victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on its own, making a runoff election in a month more likely. With most votes counted, conservative New Democracy took a commanding lead of 40.8%, trouncing the radical leftist Syriza, which governed from 2015 […]

By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece’s ruling New Democracy party stormed to a crushing victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on its own, making a runoff election in a month more likely. With most votes counted, conservative New Democracy took a commanding lead of 40.8%, trouncing the radical leftist Syriza, which governed from 2015 […]

ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – Jon Rahm came into the PGA Championship looking to extend a brilliant start to the year that included a Masters triumph but instead struggled just to make the cut and walked away from Oak Hill on Sunday searching for positives. Rahm closed with a one-over-par 71 that left him at seven over on the week and well off the lead and while he is certain […]

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -At least 12 people died and an unspecified number were injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American country’s government said. Alianza FC and Club Deportivo FAS were playing the second leg of their playoff quarter-final game at the Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, the country’s capital, when play was suspended after a stampede broke out in the general […]