MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Those who think stronger Russia-West partnership is crucial for international stability should be pleased with the results of the outgoing year. Though it began
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- An interview given by former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam Friday to an Arab TV insinuating that Syria played a role in the assassination of former
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- After a grim year of slow growth, riots and terror attacks from its Muslim immigrant underclass, rows over its budget and two thumping rejections by Dutch and French voters of its planned new constitution, the European Union's leaders can hardly wait for
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A reform movement is slowly transforming Saudi Arabia's rights and opportunities for women from the ballot box to the business community.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- It was a year when the United States achieved all of its political goals in Iraq and made major progress in developing the new Iraqi military forces. Yet as the
BRUSSELS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. ambassador to Belgium hosted an extraordinary event here recently, one that exposes the shortcomings of the Bush administration's militarized "war on t
KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Record unemployment, nasty business scandals, and an inconclusive general election followed by the appointment of the country's first female leader -- Germany h
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- This summer's withdrawal and the subsequent shake up in the country's political parties are the two most important events that occurred in Israel in 2005 and wh
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A doubling of the tax deduction for charitable giving in Hurricane Katrina's wake should make 2005 the best giving year ever in the United States.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union Friday criticized a new Justice Department leak probe. The Justice Department announced earlier Friday that it was launching an investigation into the disclosure of a secret National Security Agency domestic eavesdroppin
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice has launched a probe to discover who leaked the details of a major domestic surveillance program.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The announcement by former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that he will not seek re-election marks the end of an era in the nation's politics and pla
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- High voter turnout in the recent Iraqi elections demonstrates that democracy can mobilize the Iraqi people. What remains to be seen is whether democracy will al
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- With high ambitions of securing a multilateral trade agreement that would help aid least-developed countries, trade ministers spent the better part of 2005 atte
CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Australia's decision to participate in the Iraq War has lost favor among backers of Prime Minister John Howard's coalition government.
CAIRO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Twenty Sudanese migrants died Friday in clashes with Cairo riot police who forcefully dismantled their makeshift refuge outside a U.N. office.
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
