ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Foreign Ministry dismissed as "totally baseless" a report in The New Yorker about the United States offering to protect its nuclear weapons.

MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Philippine authorities said Monday they found the severed head of a school principal, who was kidnapped three weeks ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court, has canceled plans to attend a conference in Turkey, local reports indicate.

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BAGHDAD, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Two U.S. Army pilots were killed during a hard helicopter landing in Iraq's Salah ad Din province, military officials said Monday.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Czech Republic authorities say they're investigating evidence that elite troops deployed in Afghanistan had Nazi swastikas on their uniforms.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Investigators were looking into a possible tie between the accused Fort Hood, Texas, gunman and an imam authorities suspect backs al-Qaida, officials said.

BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Germans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Berlin.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Washington's Metro subway system won't allow independent safety investigators access to live tracks, documents show.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The father of one of the victims of District of Columbia snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo says he wants to watch Muhammad's execution this week.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- As the FBI's cyber sleuths comb through Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's hard drive, they will quickly conclude that this Virginia-born shrink of Jordanian-Palestinian descent inhabited an electronic global caliphate, the ummah, or universal community of Muslim believers, next to which the nation-state -- even one as powerful as the United States -- pales into insignificance.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The lack of progress in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority could plunge the region into an abyss, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned.

MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A weakened Hurricane Ida slogged across the Gulf of Mexico Monday, as hurricane warnings were posted from Mississippi to Florida, weather officials said.

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.