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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Add the Mideast crisis to the list of foreign policy issues awaiting U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's attention when he takes office, observers say.

SHIJIAZHUANG, China, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Four more people from China's dairy industry went on trial Monday on charges they produced milk products tainted with melamine, officials said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A British expatriate fighting a Dubai prison sentence for adultery says she has been wrongly accused by her husband.

TORONTO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Toronto man has issued a public appeal for anyone who was intimate with his HIV-positive ex-stripper wife to be tested for the AIDS-causing virus.

MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Medieval Prince Alexander Nevsky has been named the greatest Russian of all time in a television poll, officials said Monday.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The death rate for U.S. police officers slain by gunfire has reached a 50-year low, a report released Monday indicates.

LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Israeli Embassy in London was the scene of violent confrontations as up to 1,500 people protested against Israel's campaign in Gaza, witnesses said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. counterfeiting arrests have spiked to a five-year high as the struggling economy entices some Average Joes to pass fake money, authorities say.

JACKSON, Wyo., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney says criticism of controversial anti-terrorism measures he supported after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is "unwarranted."

NEW DELHI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Indian officials said Monday about 300 migrants were missing and feared drowned after they jumped ship and tried to swim ashore near Andaman Island last week.

TORONTO, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- About 230,000 Canadians in Ontario lost electricity from a weekend windstorm that downed power lines and flipped tractor trailers on highways, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Fewer illegal immigrants were apprehended trying to sneak into the United States from Mexico during the 2008 fiscal year, federal officials said.

CONAKRY, Guinea, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Guinean opposition leader says a pledge by the country's new military rulers to hold elections within two years is too long to wait.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Two dozen officials from Saddam Hussein's government went on trial for their roles in the deaths of thousands of Saddam's opponents in Iraq, officials said.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The United States' three top broadcast television networks have quietly stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq, industry watchers say.