WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging early Saturday morning. Few Iraqis will shed any tears for him, or for his half-brother, who was executed a few minutes a
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The agency that would process millions of applications from new guest workers under immigration reform proposals is crippled by antiquated technology.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Reports from Baghdad citing U.S. officials say that Saddam's execution could take place within the next few days, if true, the timing could not be worse.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An influential left-of-center think tank says Democrats should demand new Congressional authorization before any additional U.S. troops are sent to Iraq.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The United States is moving a system for detecting weapons of mass destruction to a Web-based portal. The new portal can be used on a laptop as well.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- If the situation in Iraq can be salvaged, it will not be done with troop surges alone or a single all-inclusive strategy applied uniformly across the country, b
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russia's United Nations envoy Friday urged Iran to abide by a U.N. Security Council resolution and halt its illegal uranium enrichment program.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Defense Department has created a new office to oversee major service contracts like the $15 billion Halliburton contract in Iraq.
MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russia has ambitious plans to study and explore celestial bodies. For example, the Koronas-Foton spacecraft, due to be launched in 2008, will be packed with ins
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The decision by the New York Stock Exchange to list a medical research company targeted by animal rights protestors on a new electronic market where shares can
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Just over a third of military respondents approve of the president's management of the Iraq war, according to the Army Times newspaper group. Only 35 percent of the servicemen and women polled this year said they approve of the way President George W. Bus
MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russia is determined to strengthen its ties with North Korea despite the reclusive Asian dictatorship's illegal nuclear program.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to back channel talks with representatives of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on "The principles for a permane
BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- About 90 percent of Iraqis feel the situation in the country was better before the U.S.-led invasion than it is today, according to a new ICRSS poll.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Retired U.S. Army General Jack Keane and American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederic W. Kagan have argued that any "surge" of additional American troops to I
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- South Korea is facing a leadership crisis as the popularity of its reformist leader and his party has plunged to record lows this year following a spate of scan
MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russian investigators believe a former shareholder of oil firm Yukos ordered the mysterious killing of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
Opposition Syrian Free Army members hold their guns as they attend a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Jrjanaz near Idlib in Syria on February 11, 2012. UPI
