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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry says U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide is overstepping his bounds in the country.

QERA, China, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- No casualties were reported Sunday in a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that rattled Xigaze Prefecture in China's Tibetan region, authorities said.

TOKYO, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Japan's top court has affirmed the death sentences of two men convicted in a fatal sarin gas attack on a subway station, officials said.

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TAWANG, India, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Thousands of people Sunday greeted the Dalai Lama as he ignored China's warning not to visit the border town of Tawang, India, officials said.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was remembered Sunday as a man of reason who sought peace with the Palestinians, officials said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed a local mayor and 11 others in northwest Pakistan Sunday.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army Saturday identified the 13 people killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas:

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 fellow military members at Fort Hood, has been taken off a ventilator, the Army said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Every once in a while society pauses to take stock, usually through the courts, to see if its actions measure up to "evolving standards of decency."

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Saturday night narrowly passed a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system that backers say would provide coverage to almost all Americans.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, was not part of a terrorist plot, investigators have tentatively concluded.

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A California State University-Sacramento student who allegedly killed one of his roommates with a baseball bat has been charged with murder.

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