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BRUSSELS, May 21 (UPI) -- The United Kingdom formally requested the European Union designate the Lebanese Hezbollah's military sector a terrorist organization.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 21 (UPI) -- Fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo continued Tuesday, a government spokesman said, two days before a visit by the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Same-sex couples inch toward sharing benefits in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (GPI)-- Same-sex couples are a step closer to being able to share social security benefits after one government agency changed its policy in May 2013. Same-sex marriage has been legal for three years in Mexico City. But delays in Congress to revise the social security laws continue to leave spouses without access to each other’s benefits.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 21 (UPI) -- Carl Pistorius, the older brother of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, was acquitted Tuesday in the death of a motorcyclist, a South African magistrate says.
PARIS, May 21 (UPI) -- An unidentified man shot himself to death in front of the altar of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Tuesday, police said.
MOSCOW, May 21 (UPI) -- Russia will decommission and scrap two Cold War-era nuclear submarines, a navy official said Tuesday.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 21 (UPI) -- Two teenage girls in Sweden were charged Tuesday with participating in an Instagram account that encouraged "slut-shaming."
CAIRO, May 21 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will remain behind bars for another 30 days, an Egyptian court ruled Tuesday.
VATICAN CITY, May 21 (UPI) -- Pope Francis did not perform an exorcism on a young man in a wheelchair who attended mass at the Vatican on Pentecost, a spokesman said Tuesday.
OTTAWA, May 21 (UPI) -- A female staff sergeant has sued the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, claiming she was harassed and sexually assaulted in the 1980s.
BEIJING, May 21 (UPI) -- Three mills in central China have been closed and the rice they produced recalled after officials said Tuesday the grain was found to be tainted with cadmium.
Five head to trial in slaying of Russian reporter Politkovskaya
MOSCOW, May 21 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Moscow say the case against five men suspected of involvement in the killing of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has been sent to court.
VATICAN CITY, May 21 (UPI) -- Authorities Tuesday tried to convince a restaurateur to leave the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City where he is protesting European Union policies.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is urging authorities to fully implement the Elimination of Violence Against Women law, a news release states.
TUNIS, Tunisia, May 21 (UPI) -- Tunisia's Interior Ministry declared Ansar al-Sharia an illegal organization that will be barred from activities of the Salafist movement of Sunni Muslims.
ABUJA, Niger, May 21 (UPI) -- About 120 insurgents were arrested in northern Nigeria as they planned the funeral of a commander killed earlier in the week, military officials say.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 21 (UPI) -- Nelson Mandela is being sued by his daughters for the right to control his money and artwork, legal documents indicate.
ORANGE WALK TOWN, Belize, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Internet security pioneer John McAfee called the burning of his former Belize home last week suspicious.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, May 21 (UPI) -- A connecting walkway at a garment factory in Cambodia collapsed into a pond sending 23 employees to hospitals, officials said.
BAGHDAD, May 21 (UPI) -- Bombings across northern Iraq Tuesday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, officials said.
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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad
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