Category Archives: World
Meet the brothers fighting for indebted Greek homeowners
ATHENS, Greece - Leonidas Papadopoulos is a doctor, his brother Ilias an economist, and once a week they take a break from ordinary life to fight the government. They go to court every Wednesday, the ...
May 03, 2017
Clashes in Venezuela as Maduro starts constitutional rewrite
CARACAS, Venezuela - Thousands of protesters were met with plumes of tear gas in Venezuela’s capital Wednesday, just a short distance from where President Nicolas Maduro delivered a decree kicki...
May 03, 2017
Anger grows in South Korea over US anti-missile system
SEONGJU, Korea, Republic Of - The anger is palpable on a narrow road that cuts through a South Korean village where about 170 people live between green hills dotted with cottages and melon fields. It&...
May 03, 2017
Oklahoma's once busy death chamber to stay quiet much longer
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma has had one of the busiest death chambers in the country for decades, executing more people per capita than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that dea...
May 03, 2017
Border Patrol hits fairs, rodeos in zealous recruiting bid
FLORENCE, Ariz. - The beer was flowing and music was blaring in the middle of the Arizona desert when Ric Kindle approached a group of Border Patrol agents and customs officers out to recruit new hire...
May 03, 2017
Levee breaks, river closure latest fallout from flooding
ST. LOUIS - Authorities urged residents to evacuate a small Missouri River town and halted traffic along a busy section of the Mississippi River near St. Louis on Wednesday, as relentless rain and an ...
May 03, 2017
Disgraced preacher, child sex abuser Tony Alamo dies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher whose apocalyptic ministry grew into a multimillion-dollar network of businesses and property before he was convicted in Arkansas of sexually...
May 03, 2017
Suit: Robert Durst's 2nd wife helped hide killing of his 1st
NEW YORK - Millionaire heir Robert Durst’s current wife helped him cover up what happened to his long-vanished former spouse, new court papers say. The allegations, made by his first wife’...
May 03, 2017
Correction: AP Poll-Paying for News story
NEW YORK - In a story May 2 about paying for news, The Associated Press reported the incorrect number of New York Times subscriptions. They were 390,000 in 2011, not 406,000, and 1.61 million, not 1.8...
May 03, 2017
Praying for prosperity, Nepalis carry on ancient tradition
KATHMANDU, Nepal - The last time the five-story-high chariot crashed during Nepal’s Rato Machindranath festival, participants knew something bad was coming. Months later, in February 2005, then-...
May 03, 2017
