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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Broader research is needed in the area of healthcare utilization in regards to minorities in the United States, an expert says.

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Mayon Volcano in the Albay Province of the Philippines is nearing possible eruption after days of volcanic activity, state volcanologists said Friday.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Swedish lawmaker has apologized for shedding clothing and making sexual advances toward a colleague while drunk at a parliament Christmas party.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Michigan's Plymouth Ice Festival was picked by a California-based tourism Web site to top its list of "Five Great Ice Festivals Around the World."

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Parliament has voted unanimously to ban cluster munitions, putting the country among a growing list of nations ratifying an anti-bomb convention.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Washington is committed to a strategic partnership with Pakistan that extends beyond plans for a regional U.S. military withdrawal in 2011, officials said.

JAKARTA, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Police are hunting more suspects after killing a Papua separatist fighter believed to have been involved in the slaying of two Americans in 2002.

LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- James Nesbitt, Minnie Driver and Goran Visnjic have begun shooting the television miniseries "The Deep" in Glasgow, Scotland, the BBC announced.

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Iranian response to the opposition movement that emerged in the wake of disputed June elections has failed to quiet the voice of dissent, an activist says.

KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities announced they arrested a suspect believed to be a close personal aide to Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Agriculture will benefit from energy and climate change legislation having strong carbon offset programs, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Friday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Pakistani corruption agency issued arrest warrants for Interior Minister Rehman Malik following a government decision to revoke an amnesty law.

AUGUSTA, Maine, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Maine has selected three Atlantic Ocean sites for prototype wind turbines.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Iran's reported seizure of a border oil well just inside Iraqi territory came hot on the heels of Baghdad's success in signing up foreign oil companies to boost its limping oil production, a plan that deeply alarms OPEC members, especially neighboring Iran.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Cameras for the first time have filmed waves of aurora borealis colliding to produce spectacular bursts of light, scientists in California said.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Two Iraqi government officials said Friday Iranian security forces took control of an oil well in Iraq's Maysan province.

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Venezuela's incorporation in Mercosur, considered a certainty after Brazilian ratification, now faces a new hurdle in Paraguay, which says the man and not the country is the problem.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. markets traded narrowly higher Friday, despite strong gains among blue chip financial stocks.

WERNERSVILLE, Pa., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Former U.S. reality television personality Kate Gosselin confirmed Friday her divorce from her husband Jon has been finalized.