WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Public perception of the conflict in Afghanistan remains mixed, polls show, while Washington continues to deliberate over the appropriate strategy.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department announced the sentencing of a U.S. citizen charged with conspiring to export banned aircraft equipment to Iran.
Netanyahu on offensive over weapons cache
JERUSALEM, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said world attention should focus on Hezbollah weapons rather than war crimes allegations in the Goldstone report.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A U.N. team investigating the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto issued a request to speak to former President Pervez Musharraf.
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Turkish government approached its Greek counterparts to discuss forming a strategic cooperation council to improve bilateral relations.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- An Iraq Shiite cleric drew fire from religious conservatives over a decision to adopt secularism in a new political party competing in parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Washington is using the alleged threat to national security from Iran as an excuse to increase its military spending programs, Iranian military officials said.
BERLIN, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- When the Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, Mario Roellig sat in his West Berlin apartment and was sobbing in despair.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military on Friday said it stormed Taliban strongholds in the tribal region along the border with Afghanistan as part of major military offensive.
Brown committed, but wants Afghan reform
LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday based his commitment to the global fight in Afghanistan in part on reforms in the Kabul government.
SANAA, Yemen, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Saudi forces reportedly bombed al-Houthi rebel strongholds along the shared border with Yemen in a sign of an escalating fight against a growing insurgency.
BANGKOK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Thailand is considering breaking off diplomatic relations with neighboring Cambodia as a dispute heats up over Phnom Penh's hiring of a fugitive former Thai premier.
HOUSTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Oil field services company Halliburton announced it was awarded a drilling contract by Saudi Aramco for the Ghawar field, the largest oil field in the world.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Severe shortages of electricity and water pose a growing risk to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution that is powered largely by the country's petroleum revenues.
Colombia's Uribe under fire over U.S. bases pact
BOGOTA, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is once again under fire over the contents of a security pact that permits wide-ranging U.S. access to Colombian military bases as part of counter-narcotic and counter-terrorism operations in South America.
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