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I’ve got to think it will draw people into stores here who are looking for clothes and school supplies.

But even though the list of items that you can buy without paying state or local sales tax is limited, Last says stores have taken advantage of the busy weekend to hold sales on all types of items.

The Camp Integrity assault followed a suicide bombing at a police academy on Friday evening that killed and wounded more than 40 people, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Some 300 firefighters were combating the flames on Friday, with the fire fanned by strong winds and aided by scorching temperatures.

The European Union agreed that this position was “fully compatible” with its own agenda on a Greek bailout, which could be worth up to €86 billion (RM361.97 billion).

If the talks are not completed in time, European authorities may have to provide further temporary financing as they did with a July bridge loan, though Avgi said that possibility had not been discussed with lenders.

Mr. Gkoutzinis added that for investor confidence in the Greek market to be rekindled, the risk of Greece exiting the eurozone, and the risk of Greece defaulting on its financial liabilities would need to be off the table “once and for all”.

An IMF official said the Fund would approve new loans for Greece only if Athens reached a deal with European governments that would ensure it can pay its debts, and there was “no expectation” that talks over the next couple of weeks would get to the point where the...

The Blue Moon of July 31 wowed skywatchers around the world.

At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured in a suspected suicide attack in Turkey’s eastern Agri province early on Sunday, an official statement said.

Turkey, which launched near-simultaneous strikes against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in Iraq and Islamic State fighters in Syria last Friday, intensified its assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight.

“We are trying to ascertain their whereabouts”, foreign ministry officials said.

“We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again”, Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said in a statement.

Turkey’s air raids against the Kurdish rebels, which came at the same time as Turkey began cracking down on the Islamic State group, are reigniting a 30-year conflict with the insurgents and leave a two-year-old, fragile peace process in pieces. But their advance across...

One of the PKK fighters was also reported killed in the fighting, and Turkish forces are conducting searches in the surrounding area trying to locate the rest.