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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Two blocks away from a group of pastors promoting peace Tuesday afternoon, a man was shot dead in a New Orleans street.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Talks this week between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit will likely focus on the release of key prisoners.

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MIAMI, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An airplane carrying British Prime Minister Tony Blair slipped off its runway Tuesday evening at Miami International Airport.

SDEROT, Israel, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Qassam rocket attack in the Israeli city of Sderot Tuesday left two ninth-grade boys severely injured.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- With Democrats set to take control of the U.S. Congress next week, many in the political party have promised to restrain unnecessary spending.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Venezuela Tuesday denied meddling in the ongoing spat between Colombia and Ecuador regarding Colombia's anti-drug program along their common border.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has advised his nation's ruler, King Gyanendra, not to vacation in the Nepalese city of Hetauda.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Supplies of heroin from Afghanistan are rapidly replacing lower quality Mexican heroin, and could lead to a rise in U.S. addiction and overdoses, a report says.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A 26-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly punching out her ex-boyfriend at an apartment building in Des Moines, Iowa.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The number of women in the U.S. military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has reached 70, more than in the Korean, Vietnam and first Gulf wars.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Incoming Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., has sworn he will fight attempts to send more U.S. troops to Iraq.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Within 24 hours of having received $2,300 in cash donations, single mother of eight Jaymee Mueller had the money stolen from her car in Chicago.

REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Just in time for Christmas, residents in the state of Washington received their electrical power back after 11 days of massive power outages.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday proposed that Syrian officials were more interested in negotiations than peace.