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BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Continuing sweeps and targeted raids by U.S. and Iraqi forces for extremists' weaponry in northeast Baghdad are steadily chipping away at enemy munitions stores and hobbling attack capabilities, U.S. military officials say.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes tilted down Friday as the government said unemployment jumped to 6.1 percent in August.

MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The year 2008 has been the most productive for American missile shield plans since President Ronald Reagan launched his famed Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s.

JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- With Israel's consent, Jordan has sent about 1,000 automatic rifles and some 10,000 bullets to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An accounting change by U.S. actuaries could dramatically increase contributions needed to cover the cost of public employees' pension funds, analysts said.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. State Department officials praised Libya for blocking al-Qaida operations in North Africa and slowing recruitment of militants to fight in Iraq.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Travelers planning a fall vacation in the Caribbean and the Southern United States have to keep a weather eye out for storms, travel experts say.

KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko says a collapse of Kiev's pro-Western coalition won't prevent Ukraine from seeking to join NATO and the European Union.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- During Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Tashkent, he and Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed a series of agreements to sell Uzbek natural gas to Russia and upgrade two Soviet-era natural gas pipelines. The agreements represent yet another Western and American setback to securing Caspian and Central Asian energy resources for export to the West.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Experts are warning that it might prove counterproductive to extend to Afghanistan the U.S. strategy of forming and paying tribal militias to improve security -- though it has been credited with great successes in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi says any security agreement with the United States must guarantee full sovereignty for Baghdad.

LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Now the recession watch in Britain is getting really serious. Punch Taverns, the country's largest operator of pubs, a classic symbol of English life, has decided to scrap its dividend to shareholders after a drop in sales of more than 3 percent. The company blamed "challenging trading conditions."

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices held relatively stable overnight Friday, gaining 18 cents on the New York Mercantile Exchange to $106.48 per barrel.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- In a new book on U.S. President George Bush's leadership and governing style, Bob Woodward cites extensive administration spying on Iraqi leaders.

CHICAGO, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The booking agent for former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., says he's canceled all public commitments until after the November U.S. elections.

LUANDA , Angola, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Angola, war-ravaged and impoverished but one of Africa's biggest oil producers, had its first parliamentary elections in 16 years Friday.

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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney met with Ukrainian officials Friday to discuss continuing tensions over Russia's military incursion into Georgia.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- It will be 2009 before U.S. troop levels can be reduced in Iraq because of logistics involved in redeployment, military officials say.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.N. officials say they are racing emergency supplies to Haitians battered by three storms in recent weeks with two more storms fast approaching.