MUMBAI, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The lone surviving gunman accused in India's Mumbai attacks last November told a special court in the city Friday his earlier confession had been under duress.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- West Virginia politicians and coal industry leaders say they're surprised and puzzled by remarks on coal mining from Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Friday urged world leaders meeting in Denmark to accept a less-than-perfect agreement on climate change.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An explosion near a mosque Friday killed four people in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- More than 100 million U.S. doses of the swine flu vaccine were available Friday as 24 states lifted restrictions on who could get the vaccine, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The United States will end 2009 with the fewest executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the procedure in 1976, anti-death penalty activists say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate early Friday voted to end debate on the $636 billion defense bill, setting up a final vote for Saturday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Rescuers said Friday they have recovered four bodies and saved 38 people from a Uruguayan ship that sank off the coast of Lebanon.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. government plans to repatriate six Yemenis held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, officials said.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma judge was set to hear argument Friday to block a state law that would post information about women getting abortions in the state, attorneys say.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The popular Internet site Twitter was hacked in the overnight hours, but company officials said the issue was resolved.
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook was arrested Friday in an alleged corruption case, which she has denied.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia in its first such actions against former Khmer Rouge leaders charged Ieng Sary and Nuon Chea with genocide.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. military and chemical companies failed to warn of the danger of Agent Orange, the chemical used as a defoliant in Vietnam, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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