APAC, Uganda-- The number of reported rape, domestic violence and defilement cases dropped between 2011 and 2012 in the Apac district of northern Uganda. Action for Development, a local nongovernmental organization, credits the decline to its training of community agents of change during 2012 to peacefully resolve conflicts and to promote violence-free homes. Agents cite extramarital affairs, alcoholism and early marriage as the top issues that can fuel violence.
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Japan will write off almost $6 billion in Myanmar's debt and provide a new loan of about $600 million, Finance Minister Taro Aso said Thursday.
ROCKWOOD, Pa., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania chiropractor who took a gun into a school district office hours after the Newtown, Conn., shootings faces a possible five years in prison.
TORONTO, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A slain British Columbia woman is the latest in a string of bizarre abductions of Canadians in Pakistan and Afghanistan, officials said.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Turkish students should be able to read John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" without any censorship, a cabinet minister said Thursday.
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A South Korean court Thursday rejected a demand by Japan that a Chinese man be extradited to face charges he attacked a war memorial in Tokyo.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, at times overcome by emotion, urged lawmakers to tackle the nation's debt so it won't be passed on to future generations.
VAN NUYS, Calif., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The California man accused of dousing a homeless woman with flammable liquid and setting her on fire as she slept pleaded not guilty, police said.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Britain Thursday extradited to the United States a Pakistani man accused of plotting terror attacks in England and the United States, U.S. prosecutors said.
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A majority of Americans say they're optimistic about how they and their families will fare in 2013, results of a Gallup poll released Thursday indicate.
ADEN, Yemen, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- At least two Yemeni soldiers were injured Thursday in a grenade attack on an army post in the southeastern region of the country, a military official said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. immigration officials said Thursday 245 people were arrested and 123 alleged victims have been identified in an investigation into child pornography.
CAIRO, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak OKd the brutal response by government troops against protesters in Tahrir Square, an investigative commission found.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.N. tourism officials lauded support for a resolution calling on member states to support ecotourism as a means to fight poverty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- President Obama said portions of the defense bill he signed Thursday may be unconstitutional congressional intrusions but he will implement them.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is "raring to go" and return to work next week after being hospitalized for a blood clot, a department spokeswoman said.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Illinois same-sex marriage advocates said they suffered a procedural setback Wednesday in a push to get a bill passed before a lame duck session ends.
BELLEVILLE, Ill., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Belleville, Ill., Police Chief William Clay has ordered on-duty officers not to patronize a restaurant where a detective was asked to leave her gun outside.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Brazil is considering retaliation against trade partners that are refusing to import its beef suspected of carrying atypical mad cow disease.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The Justice Department does not have to release a document justifying the 2011 targeted killing of a U.S. citizen in Yemen, a New York federal judge has ruled.
