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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The top U.N. peacekeeper said Wednesday the review necessary to determine Kosovo's progress toward becoming a normal society may come in mid-2005.
CHICAGO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The year was 1925 -- 62 years after the Civil War and abolition of legalized slavery. Strom Thurmond was 22, living at his parents' home, and working as a teacher and high school coach.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is proposing new rules for a new class of "smart" radio devices that promise to use the spectrum more efficiently.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Widespread diplomatic efforts to have Saddam Hussein tried by the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague seemed doomed Wednesday when the current presid
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. will be allowed unsupervised visits with his parents, a federal judge in Washington ruled Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Wall Street ended mixed Wednesday and with little economic news to sway traders, some investors have begun locking in gains for the year.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Crude prices hit a nine-month high on the New York Mercantile Exchange Wednesday after new data showed another decline in U.S. oil supplies.
GUATEMALA CITY, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Human rights activist Miguel Albizurez Angel, leader of the Alliance Against Impunity, has charged that President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera will never respond to the Alliance's request to hand over the archives of the Presidential General Staff's military
MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Kremlin has learned that having wishes come true can be similar to dangerously exceeding production quotas of the Soviet period. This time around the Kremli
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The State Department Wednesday authorized family members and non-emergency employees at the U.S. Embassy and consulate in Saudi Arabia to leave the country volu
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Wednesday that Saddam Hussein's capture provides a "perfect opportunity" to the United States and Europe to impr
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The movie awards season begins in earnest with the announcement Thursday of the nominations for the second most prominent set of prizes, the Golden Globes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- With $63 billion above and beyond the military's annual budget already earmarked for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2004, the Pentagon's top bu
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- It has been a very good week indeed for retired Gen. Wesley Clark. He came across as an impressive-looking hero testifying against Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. He was the only Democrat who didn't appear diminished by the capture of Saddam Hussein. And
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denied Wednesday that she implied Osama bin Laden could be in U.S. custody and the Bush administration was withholding news of it for political gain.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- It's been a decade since the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed a free trade agreement that was supposed to generate more jobs and bolster economic expans
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- There were dramatic scenes Wednesday at the loya jirga, which is in session to debate the draft constitution of Afghanistan, amid several rocket attacks on the
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday approved a reorganization of the New York Stock Exchange the exchange itself had proposed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Kazakh and U.S. officials reminisced in Washington about how the former Soviet republic gave up the chance to become the first Muslim state with nuclear weapons
DALLAS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A heated debate in Texas over a proposal to pump groundwater from state lands for commercial sale is spurring state officials to take another look at a sacred 100-year-old water policy often called "the biggest straw wins."
Israelis dance with their national flags to celebrate Jerusalem Day outside the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 20, 2012. Thousands marched to Jerusalem's Old City on the anniversary of Israel's capture of the eastern part of the city during the Six-Day War in 1967. UPI/Debbie Hill
