BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- U.N. weapons inspectors Wednesday pursued their search of Iraq's suspected sites of weapons of mass destruction over the Christmas holidays.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The Syrian Foreign Ministry Wednesday dismissed Israeli charges that Iraq had transferred its chemical and biological weapons to Syria.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "allegations" were "baseless and ... aimed at
BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- U.N. weapons inspectors on Wednesday pursued their search of Iraq's suspected sites of weapons of mass destruction over the Christmas holiday. The inspectors ta
ROME, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Pope John Paul II Wednesday heralded Christmas Day with a call to "extinguish the ominous smoldering" of a possible war with Iraq.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Bethlehem marked Christmas Eve in a gloomy atmosphere with no festivities, lights, or carols at Manger Square, outside the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
Instead, residents mourned the outcome of their 27-month old intifada that has brought the Israelis
BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Bethlehem marked Christmas Eve in a gloomy atmosphere with no festivities, lights, nor carols sung at Manger Square, outside Jesus' birthplace.
A whirlwind of U.S. diplomacy in China as the year moved to a close signaled what analysts called a warming in ties between the two nations. And in a surprising reciprocal move, China agreed unconditionally in December to admit United Nations inspectors o
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Israeli police Tuesday boarded a settlers' pirate radio ship and managed to take it off the air for a short while, but the crew renewed transmissions shortly af
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Israel believes -- but is not yet certain -- that Iraq transferred chemical and biological weapons to Syria to conceal them from U.N. weapons inspectors, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Israeli police boarded a settlers' pirate radio ship but only managed to keep it off the air for a short time. Police boarded the ship off the Tel Aviv coast sa
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday Israel believes Iraq may have transferred chemical and biological weapons to Syria.
PARIS, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The butchers at the Place des Fetes were doing brisk business one recent rainy morning, fielding orders from restless lines of holiday shoppers.
GAZA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- As a gesture of protest against the Israeli military presence, the Palestinians did not put up their customary lighted Christmas tree in the yard of Bethlehem's
PARIS, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- France rollercoastered through a dizzying 2002, as voters cast out a seemingly popular leftist government, and aligned themselves squarely with the center-right
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Several Muslims civil liberties groups Monday filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Immigration and Naturalization Service for wha
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- As he gets ready to submit a new budget to Congress, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is planning to include a cushion of extra money for risky defense acquisi
Surfers ride the waves at Fort Point by the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on May 24, 2012. The bridge is set for its 75th anniversary celebration on May 27. UPI/Terry Schmitt
