ATHENS - Ousted SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis insisted he’s still the party’s leader, challenging the validity of his removal ahead of November elections, and as he took a swipe at the former head and one-time premier, Alexis Tsipras.

THESSALONIKI - A Canadian company’s mining project in northern Greece that was held up for years by the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA is now 76 percent completed, said officials from its Greek office, Hellas Gold.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Rescue workers searched through the rubble of a collapsed building in central Beirut on Friday morning, hours after two Israeli strikes hit the Lebanese capital, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens.