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The wave of attacks against the Iraqi Christian population is a matter of concern not only to the public but many politicians as well, the Shiite al-Bayyna newspaper of the Iraqi Hezbollah said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Russian Defense Ministry is accelerating its plans to reduce its armed service personnel by about 17 percent, or 200,000, in the next few years.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Members of the EU Parliament clashed Wednesday over the possibility of sending a naval mission to the volatile coastal waters off Somalia.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Despite moderate political progress, ongoing threats to Haiti's security have prompted the U.N. Security Council to renew its mandate in the country.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department has awarded a $200,200 grant to a non-governmental demining organization in the south of Sudan.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Iraqi Kurdish region denies reports that Norwegian firm DNO received the OK to begin exporting oil, prompting speculation of a broad political deal.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A NATO naval operation deployed to the Horn of Africa Wednesday as part of an effort to counter the growing threat from pirates off the coast of Somalia.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has been secretly collecting DNA samples from suspected terrorists as part of a database used by the defense and intelligence communities.

ERBIL, Iraq, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Kurdistan Regional Government Wednesday strongly condemned attacks on Iraqi Christians and denied claims it was behind the violence.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A staffer in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., accidentally distributed a "staff only" memo to media outlets.

KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- NATO instructors met with their Iraqi army counterparts to coordinate a training exercise to teach Iraqi troops leadership skills, the U.S. military said.

PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Mikros Systems Corp. says it has delivered its next-generation radar automated maintenance tool to the U.S. Navy's USS Bunker Hill (CG-52).

ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- This year's Wimbledon champion, Venus Williams, led Wednesday's second-round winners at the Zurich Open tennis tournament in Switzerland.

SEATTLE, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Five visiting scholars from Kabul University in Afghanistan have disappeared from the University of Washington, officials say.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The August military confrontation between Georgia and Russia has highlighted the vulnerability of the West's prize project to bring Caspian oil westward, the $3.6 billion, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. On Aug. 5, BTC exports were halted by a mysterious explosion, temporarily halting Azeri oil exports. Despite the pipeline's vulnerability, Kazakhstan has now decided to use the BTC to transport limited amounts of crude from its Tengiz field westward.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Grains closed sharply lower on the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday, moving in sympathy with both oil and stocks.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices fell to a penny more than half July's record price, retracting 50 percent on the New York Mercantile Exchange in just over three months.

MADRID, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A pair of grand slam titlists led Wednesday's second-round winners at the $2.78 million Madrid Masters tennis tournament in Spain.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Russia and Georgia have opened their first direct talks since the August military conflict between the two countries ended, officials said.

WASHINGTON , Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush said the United States is making progress with reconstruction efforts in Iraq.