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CRAWFORD, Texas, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush on Monday signed a bill allowing state and local governments to end investments in Sudan.

ZAGREB, Croatia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Croatia's police minister has resigned after taking part in a boar hunt with a war crimes suspect who was awaiting trial before a U.N. tribunal.

JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has been selected to replace the retiring Trent Lott in the U.S. Senate.

ATLANTA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A man who was recently exonerated after 14 years of wrongful imprisonment has married his longtime girlfriend in Atlanta.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Suicide bombers killed five people at an Iraqi checkpoint manned by members of a Sunni tribe that had turned against the anti-U.S. insurgency.

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Meteorologists say the drought in Florida is approaching the worst in state history following two of the driest seasons in more than 100 years.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted as Pakistan premier in 1999 by Pervez Musharraf, said Monday the president should resign immediately.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The Israeli army played into the hands of Hezbollah militants during the 2006 Lebanon war, a Knesset report concluded Monday.

KARANGANYAR, Indonesia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Indonesia's president won't let rescue workers give up the hunt for three people missing in last week's flooding and landslides on Java.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Organizers of New Year's festivities in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, said the aim of their New Year's fireworks display was to set a world record.

DENVER, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Airline passengers in the United States may no longer carry loose lithium batteries in checked luggage starting Tuesday over concerns of battery fires.

CONCORD, N.H., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New Hampshire on Tuesday becomes the latest state in the union to offer civil unions to same-sex couples.

DENVER, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A winter storm's high winds and blowing snow closed Colorado highways and sent nearly 2,900 people to high-country shelters.

PARIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- France is breaking off diplomatic contacts with Syria amid tensions over Lebanon's presidential election.

NEW DELHI, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- India reportedly has quietly stopped arms sales to Myanmar, which may bring more global pressure on the military junta to ease up its crackdown on democracy.