JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Palestinians demonstrated Monday urging President Mahmoud Abbas to remain in office days after he announced his intention to resign, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Anti-abortion groups, buoyed by action in the House, are ready to pressure U.S. senators to do the same when they take up healthcare reform, both sides said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington Monday to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on restarting the peace process.

NASHVILLE, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Indiana Supreme Court said it will rule on whether to review a Tennessee woman's allegation a casino had a duty to stop her from losing about $1 million.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Militants struck Pakistan's Peshawar area again Monday when a suicide bomb attack at a police checkpoint killed at least three people, police said.

JAKARTA, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A 6.7 magnitude earthquake early Monday struck eastern Indonesia, killing at least two people and toppling several homes, local residents said.

JIM THORPE, Pa., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Family members of 1912 Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe said they plan to sue for the return of his remains from a Pennsylvania town named in his honor.

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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Four American World War II veterans were given the French Legion of Honor award in Pittsburgh for their roles in liberating France in 1944, officials said.

MIAMI, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida gained strength as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and a hurricane warning was posted for part of the northern Gulf Coast, forecasters said.

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- China, already enjoying extensive reach into Africa's oil and other resources, has widened its influence by pledging $10 billion in easy loans to its nations.

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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Police in Illinois said Sunday they were looking for a man in connection with the shooting death of three women in a car as the victims' children looked on.

SHORELINE, Wash., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The northwest United States and British Columbia, Canada, hit by a major storm this weekend, can expect more snow and rain, meteorologists said Sunday.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A deer that leaped into a lion enclosure at Washington's National Zoo escaped the lions but was euthanized due to severe injuries, officials said.