JERUSALEM, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Israel would free 980 Palestinian prisoners as part of a swap for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, state prosecutors say.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, unlike many other Israeli leaders, has praised a decision to freeze Jewish settlement building.

ATLANTA, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The Tuesday runoff election for Atlanta mayor is creating a blitz of newspaper, television and Web ads to bring voters out for two candidates, officials say.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A major snowfall has allowed some California ski resorts to open for Thanksgiving weekend for the first time in four years, meteorologists say.

ATLANTA, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Atlanta shops either owned by or geared toward Hispanics have been hit hardest during the recession, with those aimed at Asians hurt the least, analysts say.

SATUN, Thailand, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Three male teenagers from Myanmar received prison sentences for the bludgeoning death of a British yachtsman off the Thailand coast, officials say.

OTTOWA, Ontario, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- As the United States escalates troop numbers in Afghanistan, Canada will end its combat mission there in 2011, Canadian officials say.

LA VETA, Colo., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Residents of a small Colorado artists' colony have galvanized resistance against three proposed wind farms, authorities say.

CARLSBAD, N.M., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A giant underground cavity beneath Carlsbad, N.M., is a time bomb waiting to implode, taking homes and businesses with it, geologists say.

GAOZUO, China, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A fireworks factory explosion killed three people and injured four others in eastern China's Jiangsu province, authorities said.

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BEIJING, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Tests to enter the Chinese civil service conducted Sunday attracted nearly 1 million job seekers, officials said.

LAKEWOOD, Wash., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Four off-duty police officers were fatally shot in a Sunday ambush near Tacoma, Wash., officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Pastor Rick Warren, who delivered the invocation at U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration, says he disagrees with him on abortion.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Chinese officials say they have recovered the flight data recorder of a cargo plane that crashed Saturday in Shanghai, killing three Americans.