TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday dismissed one of the senior members of his Likud Party, Deputy Infrastructure Minister Naomi Blumenthal, in a scandal ove
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday dismissed Deputy Infrastructure Minister Naomi Blumenthal in a scandal over alleged vote buying. The scandal has found th
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Iraq has protested to the United Nations about a U.S. and British air strike against targets in the southern "no fly" zone last week that it says left three dead and 16 wounded and destroyed a mosque. Also Tuesday, arms inspectors from the International A
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Pakistani Christians in America can play a positive role in increasing awareness about their homeland in the United States," Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi told two Christian gatherings in Philadelphia this week. The appeal to the Pakistani Christian co
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S.-based Muslim advocacy groups and individuals Tuesday condemned the attack on American medical workers in Yemen that left three people dead.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Listen carefully in the corridors of power in Washington. For as the North Korean nuclear crisis unfolds, you will hearing the security doctrines of left and ri
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Lebanese Muslim Shiite religious leader said Tuesday human cloning was not "a new creation law" and called for studying the positive and negative impact of su
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Hundreds of leaflets demanding Transylvania's independence were found on 28 December in Cluj, Mediafax reported. The leaflets were written in both Romanian and
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Muslim advocacy groups and individuals Tuesday condemned the attack on American medical workers in Yemen that left three people dead. They urged Yemeni authorit
GAZA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Thousands of members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction -- including leaders, militants and supporters -- rallied Tuesday in Gaza in support of the Palestinian le
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- South Korea's incoming and outgoing leaders said Tuesday they oppose the U.S. move to isolate North Korea and any pre-emptive strike on its nuclear facilities.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Why did North Korea abandon the pretense it was abiding by its 1994 nuclear development agreement with the United States and why now? Because, seasoned East Asian Pyongyang watchers say, they appear to have believed that after the United States "takes out
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A delegation of 12 religious leaders has arrived in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to promote a better understanding between the followers of the Christian and Islamic faiths, the New York-based National Council of Churches announced Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The State Department said Monday it has no visa record of five men FBI seeks for a possible connection to a terrorist cell. They are believed to have entered the country illegally, possibly from Canada, on Christmas Eve.
Opposition Syrian Free Army members hold their guns as they attend a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Jrjanaz near Idlib in Syria on February 11, 2012. UPI
