TOP NEWS By RACHEL DONADIO A day after Greece's two dominant parties collapsed at the polls, the leader of a center-right party said he had failed to form a coalition amid uncertainty about Greece's staying power inside the euro zone. By ALAN COWELL and NICHOLAS KULISH After voters in elections in France and Greece punished leaders pushing austerity, Europeans contemplated an untested political landscape shaped by demands for both austerity and growth. By ROD NORDLAND French troops on course to leave Afghanistan by the end of this year awaited word on whether the new French president will speed up their withdrawal. By ELLEN BARRY and SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY Vladimir V. Putin took the oath of office for the third time Monday, as the police tried to stamp out protests. By ROD NORDLAND The strike, which was called in response to a Taliban attack in Sangin district, resulted in the deaths of a mother and five of her children. |
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BUSINESS By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Amazon.com, king of books, toys and other retail categories, is now using its vast resources to become a major seller of high-end clothing. By RAPHAEL MINDER Rodrigo Rato of Bankia, Spain's largest real estate lender, is the most prominent Spanish banker to quit since the start of the European sovereign debt crisis. By CHRISTINE HAUSER Stocks were mixed Monday on Wall Street as weekend election results in Greece and France added to the uncertainty created by last week's disappointing jobs data in the United States. By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and KATIE THOMAS Abbott Laboratories said it reached an agreement with the federal and nearly all state governments to pay $1.6 billion in connection with its marketing of the anti-seizure drug Depakote. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal jury in San Francisco has reached an impasse on a key issue in Oracle's copyright-infringement case against Google, handing the database-software company a major setback. |
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