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ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras conceded defeat on Sunday after a partial vote count showed opposition conservatives comfortably winning the first parliamentary election since the country emerged from its international bailouts. The conservative New Democracy party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis had 39.7 percent of the vote compared to Tsipras’s Syriza party with 31.5 percent after nearly 60 percent of ballots …

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