Greece

Police find terrorists’ hide-out, weapons cache

Dozens of police raided a hide-out believed to belong to the elusive terrorist group November 17, discovering anti-tank rockets, missiles and a flag used by the group, reports said Wednesday.

Weapons found during the raid Wednesday in central Athens were similar to those used by November 17 in many of their attacks, state-run NET television said. Police also found November 17 declarations, it said.

Wednesday’s discovery would be the closest Greek authorities have ever come to the rabidly anti-American terrorist group. November 17 has claimed responsibility for the deaths of 22 people including four U.S. officials since first appearing with the 1975 killing of local CIA chief Richard Welch in Athens.

Blending extreme left-wing politics with nationalism, November 17 is named for the date of a 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship then ruling Greece.

Thailand

American wanted by FBI arrested

Thai police raided a beachside condominium and arrested an American wanted for the murder of his socialite wife in Atlanta 15 years ago, officials said Wednesday.

James Vincent Sullivan, who had been under police surveillance for weeks, was arrested Tuesday night in a condominium in the Cha-am beach resort, 100 miles south of Bangkok, said police Col. Somchai Yoklek.

He said Sullivan’s arrest was requested by the FBI. Sullivan, 61, has been indicted in the United States on charges of hiring someone to kill his estranged wife, Lita McClinton Sullivan, in 1987.

The victim’s mother, JoAnn McClinton, is a Georgia state representative.

London

Vandal decapitates statue of Thatcher

A vandal decapitated an 8-foot-tall marble statue of Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday, wielding a metal pole against the sculpture of Britain’s first female prime minister.

Suspect Paul Kelleher, 37, of London was charged with criminal damage.

Kelleher allegedly grabbed one of the poles that support ropes keeping people back from exhibits at the Guildhall Art Gallery and used it to knock the head off the statue.

Austria

Study advises waiting for fertility treatment

Most healthy couples who are worried because the woman is not pregnant after a year of trying will conceive during the second year, a new study shows.

Couples should not rush to fertility clinics and doctors should not intervene too fast with treatments unless there are obvious reasons for the couple not conceiving, said the study’s leader, Dr. David Dunson, a researcher at the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Infertility is defined as failure to get pregnant after a year of trying.

New research shows that even couples in their late 30s have a 91 percent chance of getting pregnant naturally within two years.