MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that reform has done much to purge corruption and abuse from the country's police force.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida says al-Shabaab, the Islamist group that has been fighting for control of Somalia for five years, is part of its network.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The top suspect in a Christmas Day bombing that killed at least 37 people in Nigeria was recaptured Friday after escaping police in January, officials said.
MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Russian officials Friday asked the United States to sign a bilateral extradition treaty or join existing international conventions.
ROME, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Activists who oppose the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad were arrested after trying to force their way into the Syrian embassy in Rome, officials said.
MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- More than half of Russian voters surveyed said they support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in his bid to become the country's president.
MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- At least five suicides among teenagers were reported this week in Russia, which has the highest rate of teen suicides in Europe, officials said.
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A reported cardinal's prediction that Pope Benedict XVI would die within a year is "incredible" and "I don't even want to address it," a Vatican spokesman said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Government leaders in Brazil are facing a police strike in Rio de Janeiro less than two weeks before the country's internationally famous Carnival.
PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Five members of a Canadian family in an SUV were killed in a fiery head-on collision with a tractor-trailer on a central British Columbia highway, police said.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Explosions rocked Aleppo in northern Syria Friday and Homs in the west was hit by tank fire, trapping residents in their homes, officials and activists said.
MALE, Maldives, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- All sides in Maldives must exercise restraint, a U.N. official urged upon arrival at the troubled Indian Ocean island nation.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court Friday dismissed Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani's appeal of a contempt notice, clearing the way for filing of formal charges.
CHENNAI, India, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A ninth-grade science teacher in Chennai, India, was stabbed to death by a15-year-old student irate over her complaints to his parents, police said.
MALE, Maldives, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The Maldivian crisis has alerted neighboring India, with its national security and defense officials holding meetings, sources told the Hindustan Times.
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