By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com | Blog
SHANGHAI, June 19 (UPI) -- The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration released its first list of companies Wednesday that have violated food safety rules and will be punished.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee gave party-line approval to its first immigration bill, a proposal that would increase enforcement and border security.
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Four Americans were killed in a rocket attack at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan, a Pentagon source said.
NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- Producers of a documentary on the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, N.Y., will petition to have the investigation reopened, their publicists said.
MONTREAL, June 19 (UPI) -- Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum announced his resignation after he was arrested on 14 criminal charges, including fraud and corruption, officials said.
LOS ANGELES, June 19 (UPI) -- A former University of Southern California professor on the FBI's most-wanted list for alleged sex crimes involving children was caught in Mexico, the FBI said.
PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (UPI) -- Police said they charged a Philadelphia man with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a paraplegic man in the chest and cut off his testicles.
LOURDES, France, June 19 (UPI) -- A 70-year-old woman died after being swept away by floodwaters in southern France, officials said Wednesday.
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com | Blog
Lima was hit by the second earthquake in as many days Tuesday afternoon.
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 19 (UPI) -- The crisis in Syria exacerbated the plight of refugees or displaced persons, pushing displacements to an 18-year high, a U.N. refugee agency said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Afghan President Karzai suspended security talks with the United States Wednesday, saying he was doing so to protest U.S. outreach to the Taliban.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- President Obama's schedule Wednesday included meetings in Germany with U.S. Embassy personnel and German dignitaries, the White House said.
ISLAMABAD, June 19 (UPI) -- Pakistani authorities have closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 people.
BURNABY, British Columbia, June 19 (UPI) -- An elderly man in British Columbia said he is hoping for the recovery of a bicycle, stolen this month, that he used for a trip across Canada in 1985.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- A Washington rally Wednesday against Internal Revenue Service conservative-group targeting will be the largest Tea Party protest in three years, organizers say.