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ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s outspoken finance minister says he and his wife came under attack by anarchists while dining in a central Athens restaurant. Yanis Varoufakis said Wednesday he and his wife were in the Exarhia district, a neighborhood popular with extreme leftists and anarchists, Tuesday night when a group …

MEXICO CITY – The legislature in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has condemned the killing of a local mayoral candidate. A statement late Friday from Guerrero’s congress reported the killing of Ulises Fabian Quiroz, who was a candidate for mayor of Chilapa for the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party-Green party …

FRANKFURT, Germany – Swiss bank UBS Group AG says net profit almost doubled in the first quarter as money from rich clients flowed into its wealth management businesses. The company said Tuesday that its net profit rose to 1.977 billion Swiss francs ($2.12 billion) in the January to March quarter …