GAZA, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Mahmoud Abbas is facing an uphill battle in his campaign for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to win a seat in Congress, has died at her retirement home in east-central Florida. She was 80.
PHUKET, Thailand, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- I was in Bangkok when the tsunami struck. An announcement was made on television requesting translators to assist with foreign tsunami victims. I can speak Thai
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga is skeptical about the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam restarting the peace talks after suffering a devas
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A small army of Middle Eastern experts, former ambassadors to Israel and/or Arab capitals, think tank specialists, special envoys under the last five administra
PARIS, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Four months ago, French public school children arrived to class under the glare of international media attention, as a new ban against wearing Muslim headscarfs
NEW DELHI, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Rescue workers and volunteers have given up all hopes to find any more survivors of the killer tsunami waves that lashed the coastal cities of 12 countries eigh
TARTU, Estonia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Qatar's release last week of two Russian Military Intelligence agents convicted of assassinating a Chechen leader there almost a year ago represents both "the t
PERTH, Australia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The Americans have been accused of being stingy with relief aid in the face of the tsunami disaster, but a closer look shows merely a rational and considered response to an unfolding tragedy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden, the man who since 9/11 brought fear into the hearts of millions, is now running scared. The master terrorist is afraid; he is very afraid.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. "We are caught in an inescap
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Republican House members are set for a bruising showdown, as decisions are made about the jurisdiction of a new committee to oversee the Department of Homeland
PARIS, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- This is the month for optimists, who cross their fingers and hope that the Palestine Authority election on Jan. 9 and the Iraqi elections on Jan. 30 can launch
BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- It's time for another round of that perennially popular political game -- bash the United Nations. Critics frequently complain about the world body's irrelevance (actually code for a reluctance to rubber stamp whatever scheme the United States is hawking)
GAINESVILLE, Ga., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Forgive me from getting personal right off the bat, but the ruling of the Washington state Supreme Court on children and their privacy made me go nuclear. The c
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Some people have theorized that Babe Ruth was such a successful baseball player because opposing teams were distracted by the stripes on his Yankees uniform. When it came to George W. Bush's state visit to Canada, his regular dark-colored suit seemed to d
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The genius of Broadway musical comedy composer-lyricist Jerry Herman for creating heartwarming entertainment is everywhere evident in the lavish Broadway reviva
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Flash floods, incessant rain and mild aftershocks are hampering relief work in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as the largest-ever relief operation got underway to prov
NEW DELHI, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- As the largest-ever relief operation got underway to provide assistance to the millions affected by last Sunday's catastrophe, the United Nations said the death
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in his annual report released by the Supreme Court on New Year's Day, warned that trying to remove "activist judges" because of
