SYDNEY, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Australian customs and border-protection authorities intercepted a ship carrying 55 asylum seekers off the country's northwest coast Friday, officials said.
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MINSK, Belarus, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The question of independence for two former Georgian republics will not be considered by the Belarusian Parliament before the spring of 2010, officials said.
ROANOKE, Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A federal jury in Virginia Friday convicted neo-Nazi William A. White of threatening and trying to intimidate litigants in a housing discrimination lawsuit.
DETROIT, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Three Detroit-area men have pleaded guilty in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said Friday.
LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Heavy snows produced travel chaos in Britain Friday, cutting power, forcing flight cancellations and stranding motorists, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A House ethics panel Friday dropped its probe of Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., and two other members of the defense spending panel Murtha leads, aides said.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- World leaders took a "meaningful and unprecedented" step in Denmark Friday by striking a voluntary agreement to fight global warming, U.S. President Obama said.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Environmentalists lashed out Friday at the agreement on climate change announced at the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An American drew a 366-day prison term Friday for scheming to obtain kickbacks on government contracts in Afghanistan, the Justice Department said.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Austin-Round Rock area in Texas is the safest big city region in the United States, Farmers Insurance Group of Companies said Thursday.
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WEST JORDAN, Utah, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A Utah man shot his estranged wife and two young sons in her new apartment and then took his own life after sending text messages, police said Friday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. company working on pro-democracy issues in Cuba under a government contract has confirmed a subcontractor is being held there.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. law enforcement officials say they are worried Mexican drug traffickers have stepped up their efforts to corrupt border police.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- More than 35 percent of Egyptians and Saudis interviewed in a recent survey considered it their duty to back regional mujahedin financially, a scholar notes.
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