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John Allen Muhammad, D.C. sniper, dies
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- John Allen Muhammad, the so-called D.C. Sniper, died by lethal injection at a Virginia prison at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday, a prison official said.
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine reservist has been charged with using a tire iron to attack a Greek Orthodox priest he mistook for an Arab terrorist, police in Florida said.
LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A United Airlines pilot has been accused of drunkenness in the cockpit of a plane that was about to take off from London's Heathrow Airport, the airline said.
Protesters try to egg prince, duchess
MONTREAL, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Protesters intent on egging Britain's Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla Tuesday when they showed up in Montreal failed in their mission, observers said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined world leaders in welcoming the new unity government in Lebanon but warned of more work to come.
SANAA, Yemen, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The U.N. World Food Program and its partners announced that it delivered humanitarian aid to nearly 100,000 internally displaced persons in Yemen since August.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- After five months of intense political wrangling, with Syria and Saudi Arabia pulling the strings, Lebanon seems set to get a new government that includes Hezbollah.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Afghan and international forces cleared the northern border of hundreds of insurgents during operations in Kunduz province, the U.S. military reports.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Judicial authorities in Iran should investigate allegations of sexual violence and abusive behavior in the national prison system, Human Rights Watch said.
KARBALA, Iraq, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Candidates with the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council trounced Sadrists in an unofficial primary contest in Karbala for January parliamentary elections.
Ida loses storm status over U.S. southeast
MIAMI, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Ida was downgraded to tropical depression status Tuesday morning as it saturated the U.S. Gulf coastal states with rain, forecasters said.
COLDSPRING, Texas, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Other emergencies delayed deputies' response to increasingly frantic calls from a southeastern Texas home where four people were found dead, officials said.
LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A baby with a neuromuscular condition that prevents him from moving or breathing can be taken off a ventilator, a British judge said Tuesday.
TRENTON, Ontario, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Canadian teenager was recovering Tuesday, a day after military rescuers in aircraft plucked him from a free-floating ice floe in Hudson Bay.