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JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert bowed to U.S. demands and directed all construction activity in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem to stop.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. Department of Homeland Security official said a bulletin was issued citing al-Qaida's alleged claim of responsibility for Benazir Bhutto's death.

GAZA, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Israeli military strikes in Gaza killed at least nine militants, including the head of Islamic Jihad's armed wing.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The body of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the victim of a suicide attack, was buried Friday next to her father in her family's graveyard.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- At least 11 endangered red kites have been killed illegally in Scotland in 2007, raising fears for a bird brought back from extinction.

FARMINGTON, Minn., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old Minnesota girl who accidentally stabbed herself in the eye with a screwdriver escaped without major injury.

BOSTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Raytheon executive says the military knew of problems with the Patriot Missile system before a U.S. Navy pilot was shot down by friendly fire.

NASHVILLE, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A court in Tennessee ruled that doctors can perform heart surgery on a newborn even though using blood products violates her parents' beliefs.

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A repair to an 87-year-old steam pipe in New York appears to be responsible for a horrifying explosion of steam when the pipe burst four months later.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A Florida teenager who surreptitiously filmed a teacher and used the video for a satirical YouTube posting has been thrown out of a magnet school.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine was arrested at a Pennsylvania bus station as he tried to return to his base with the 13-year-old girl he wanted to marry.

ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- David Hicks, the Australian detained more than five years by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is set to be released from jail in Adelaide, Australia.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Two groups that provide food for the homeless in West Palm Beach, Fla., have sued the city, challenging an ordinance that bans free food distribution.

COCOA BEACH, Fla., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A red tide on the east coast of Florida has killed thousands of fish and marred the vacations of tourists spending Christmas in the area near Cape Canaveral.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A tiny monkey seized from a man who tried to smuggle it into the United States from Peru under his hat has died while in care of federal officials.