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XUZHOU, China, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Eleven people were sentenced to jail by Chinese officials Wednesday for their roles in creating and distributing computer viruses.

OREGON CITY, Ore., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- An Oregon judge has rejected claims of entrapment made by lawyers for a couple who refused to seek medical treatment for their teenage son, who died.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court struck down an amnesty decree Wednesday that could open the way for criminal charges against President Asif Ali Zardari.

WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A judge Wednesday delayed a hearing for a Massachusetts woman accused of kidnapping a baby who had been cut from her slain mother's womb.

GARDNER, Mass., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts mother of two was found alive lying in the snow Wednesday, two days after she had disappeared, authorities said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- First lady Michelle Obama played Santa Clause Wednesday, bringing toys donated by the White House staff to a U.S. Marines' Toys for Tots collection point.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Washington denied its military forces were involved in the Yemeni conflict with al-Houthi rebel fighters in the north of the country.

COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A South Carolina legislative panel Wednesday rejected an impeachment resolution against Gov. Mark Sanford.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A burglar in Miami Beach, Fla., has been targeting religious facilities, police say, including churches, synagogues and a Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall.

QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Of nearly 3,000 breast cancer test results for Quebec women, a U.S. lab found 89 of them were incorrect, the provincial health minister said Wednesday.

MILAN, Italy, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will spend one more night in a Milan hospital recovering from injuries inflicted by an attacker, doctors said.

LONDON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The Supreme State Security Court in Syria should be abolished for its mistreatment of Kurdish minorities on trial for dissent, Amnesty International said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. military strategists see the conflict in Afghanistan through the lessons learned from the Iraq war, Marine commanders said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Embassy officials in Islamabad said they need to make up for setbacks in U.S.-Pakistani military ties created by weapons-related sanctions in the 1990s.