WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The most dangerous strategic nuclear arms race in the world today is the one between Israel and Iran: It is already far more complex than almost anyone realizes and vastly more dangerous.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Arab media have come a long way recently. Only a decade ago the media landscape in the Arab world looked pretty bleak. Only a handful of sharp and courageou
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Newly released papers have revealed that in the mid-1970s, pandas were the center of political fervor in British-Chinese Cold War relations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The government of Hong Kong agreed Thursday to reopen its borders for imports of U.S. beef from cattle less than 30 months old.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- India gave the nod Thursday for a regional free-trade deal that would lower tariffs between seven South Asian countries.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Senate has confirmed the president's nominee to head the U.S. agency that naturalizes immigrants -- just in time for him to face a federal court order to speed up the issuance of Green Cards.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The nation's new spy chief is planning a "relatively flat" intelligence budget request in 2007, following steep rises in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks.
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- South Korean investigators said Thursday scientist Hwang Woo-suk's claim of patient-specific stem cell creation was found to be another case of fraud.
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Polish government has concluded its probe into alleged CIA secret prisons in the country, but has refused to release the results.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The death of a Peruvian security guard who had served in Iraq may have been caused by exposure to depleted uranium. Wilder Gutierrez Rubio, 38, died a few hours after arriving in Lima, Peru on Dec.
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A North Korean soldier was killed when he was hit by a car driven by a South Korean near a mountain resort in the North, officials said Thursday.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Saudi security authorities have killed their second top terrorist within 24 hours. Abdel-Rahman al-Mutab, who ranked fourth on the the Saudi Interior Ministry's list of 36 most wanted Islamist terrorists, was shot dead north of the Saudi capital Riyadh, t
TALLINN, Estonia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The level of popular support in the Russian Federation for the idea of "Russia for the Russians" has remained unchanged over the last year.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Allegations that M16 officers abducted and tortured 28 terror suspects in Greece must be investigated, the British Liberal Democrats said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- By this time next year Kofi Annan will be packing his bags ready to hand over the United Nations to a new Secretary General, but choosing the seventh U.N. head
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- India's future role on the global stage will depend on its relations with other nations and with its own disadvantaged citizens.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Only a genuine reconciliation policy between societies can bring about a true and lasting peace and lay the foundations of eternal peace between former enemies.
Police remove a tresspasser after runing on the field in the seventh inning during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on May 24, 2012. UPI/Bill Greenblatt
