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Clashes break out in Greece over foreclosures

Published on Wed, 03/14/2018 - 12:00am

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five people were detained Wednesday during clashes between riot police and protesters attempting to disrupt a central Athens auction of foreclosed properties.

Left-wing activists have stepped up protests in recent weeks against online auctions as the government remains under pressure from bailout lenders to speed up the process and ease the strain on banks stemming from a huge backlog of nonperforming loans.

Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’

Published on Wed, 03/14/2018 - 12:00am
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers.

UK police investigate Russian death in London

Published on Tue, 03/13/2018 - 12:00am
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LONDON (AP) — A Russian businessman who was associated with a prominent critic of the Kremlin has died in London, his lawyer said Tuesday. Police are treating the death as unexplained and have put counterterrorism detectives in charge of the case.

But police said there was no evidence to suggest a link to the March 4 poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

Attorney Andrei Borovkov told Russian media outlets that his client, Nikolai Glushkov, has died, but said he was unaware of the time and circumstances.

Myanmar says UN findings on human rights lack credibility

Published on Tue, 03/13/2018 - 12:00am
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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s government on Tuesday rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting to crimes under international law, in its repression of several minority groups.

Nepal crash came after confused chatter

Published on Tue, 03/13/2018 - 12:00am

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — “I say again, turn!” the air traffic controller called over the radio, his voice rising, as the flight from Bangladesh swerved low over the runway at Kathmandu’s small airport.

Seconds later, the plane crashed into a field beside the runway, erupting in flames and leaving 49 of the 71 people on board dead.

That moment Monday appeared to result from minutes of confused chatter between the control tower and the pilot of the US-Bangla passenger plane, as they discussed which direction the pilot should use to land on the airport’s single runway.

WORLD NEWS BRIEFS

Published on Tue, 03/13/2018 - 12:00am

Dominican Republic town tense after couple slain in attack

Plane carrying 71 crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu

Published on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 12:00am
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A plane carrying 71 people from Bangladesh swerved erratically and flew dangerously low before crashing and erupting in flames as it landed Monday in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, killing at least 50 people, officials and witnesses said.

China shrinks steel industry, drawing Western ire

Published on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 12:00am
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s steel mills, a target of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire, are their industry’s 800-pound gorilla: They supply half of the world’s output, so every move they make has a global impact.

The steel industry swelled over the past decade to support a history-making Chinese construction boom. Once that tailed off, the country was left with a glut of half-idle, money-losing mills.

WORLD NEWS SHORTS

Published on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 12:00am

Austria: motives of Iran residence knife attacker a mystery

Workers deliver aid to Ghouta amid violence

Published on Fri, 03/09/2018 - 12:00am

BEIRUT (AP) — Relief workers used a brief lull in Damascus’ embattled rebelheld suburbs to deliver aid left over from a mission earlier in the week but were interrupted by renewed violence shorty after their team entered eastern Ghouta on Friday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said a convoy of 13 trucks with supplies, including food parcels for 12,000 people, went into Douma — the largest and most populated town in the rebel-held eastern Ghouta, on the edge of the Syrian capital — earlier in the day.