TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The right wing-dominated Central Elections Committee this week barred Knesset (parliament) members, who are Arab nationalists, from seeking reelection.
GAZA, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The New Year in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza began Wednesday as the old one had ended -- with violence. Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians Wednesday evening, while a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber was blown up near the West Ba
SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Yemeni police have arrested 13 Islamist militants in connection with Monday's killing of three U.S. missionaries in a Baptist-run hospital south of the capital Sanaa, a security source said Wednesday.
PARIS, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Paris-area airport baggage clerk, whose car trunk contained a stash of explosives and weapons, appeared in court Wednesday on charges of "association of evildoers in relation with a terrorist enterprise" and of violating French weapons laws.
PARIS, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Paris-area airport baggage worker appeared in court Wednesday on charges of "association of evildoers" for a "terrorist enterprise," and of violating French weapons laws. Explosives and weapons were found in the trunk of Abderezak Besseghir's car, but f
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- From an American perspective, the attitudes of South Korean leaders toward the United States' current confrontation with North Korea over its defiant nuclear pr
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Lebanese special forces surrounded a Beirut-based satellite television station Wednesday to prevent it from airing a program containing criticism of Saudi Arabia, sources at the station -- New TV -- told United Press International.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office Wednesday as the president of Brazil, Latin America's largest country. Known as Lula, the 57-year-old was sworn in at Congress amid cheers from his countrymen.
GOA, India, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Fault my taste in holiday reading if you will, but I have brought with me for holiday reading at the sun-drenched sea-side resort of Goa, Gordon C. Chang's "The Coming Collapse of China" and Joseph Stiglitz's "Globalization and its Discontents." Chang's t
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Lebanese authorities Wednesday threatened to close down a Beirut satellite television station if it aired a documentary critical of Saudi Arabia. A government official said the Beirut government wanted the program stopped "to avoid harming Lebanon's fore
BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office Wednesday as the first elected leftist leader of Brazil, Latin America's largest country. Known as Lula, the 57-year-old was sworn in at the National Congress amid cheers from his countrymen.
NEW DELHI, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- India and Pakistan exchanged lists Wednesday of their nuclear installations as part of a 1988 agreement that prohibits the two arch-rival neighbors from attacki
VATICAN CITY, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Pope John Paul II, marking the World Day of Peace, called Wednesday for a lasting peace in the Middle East and asked other world leaders to find ways to avoid military confrontations to solve international conflicts.
VERACRUZ, Mexico, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- More than two dozen people were killed and 50 others injured in an explosion and fire at an illegal fireworks stall in the eastern Gulf port of Veracruz.
