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The seventh installment of the "Mission Impossible" franchise was No. 1 at North American box offices this weekend, estimates showed, scaring off horror flick "Insidious: The Red Door" from last weekend's top spot.

The top US and Chinese diplomats will hold their second meeting in as many months on Thursday in Jakarta, seeking to manage tensions that risk flaring anew over alleged Chinese hacking.

Luke Coffey from the Hudson Institute confirmed for VOA the words of Serbian President Aleksandar Vui this morning about the reasons for sanctioning BIA director Aleksandar Vulin.
As Coffey said, corruption, crime and drugs are certainly not the reason for this.

The United States Embassy in Athens and its consular section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US government offices in Greece will be closed on Tuesday, in observance of Independence Day, a federal US holiday commemorating the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

In the year 2000, the US government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The US debt is soaring, hence America's current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are missing the solution: stopping America's wars of choice and slashing military outlays.

The US Embassy in Athens and its Consular Section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US Government offices in Greece will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth, the federal US holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.

Bulgaria's Parliament approved a contract to build a warehouse to store classified equipment and weapons for the F-16 aircraft. The premises will be located at the Graf Ignatievo air base and will cost 7.2 million dollars.

The contract provides for:

Polish President Andrzej Duda (L) speaks during the Central Celebrations of the Border Guard Day at the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland, 15 May 2023. EPA-EFE/Lukasz Gagulski

US Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has approved the sale of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jets to Greece, adding the last signature needed before the deal can go through, Hellas Journal reported on Thursday.

Talks to avoid a US debt default were on a knife edge Saturday as President Joe Biden warned he would not accept "extreme" Republican demands but said he remained optimistic.

"I still believe we'll be able to avoid a default and we'll get something decent done," he told reporters at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.