NADOR, Morocco, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A teenage couple in Morocco were arrested after a picture of them kissing outside their high school wound up in the newspaper, a human rights activist said.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority security forces have been carrying out a series of raids in refugee camps in the Jenin area aimed at extremist groups, officials said.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Irish voters decided. by a narrow margin, to retain the upper house of the country's legislature, officials said Saturday.
MOSCOW, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- About 700,000 volunteers from across Russia were expected to take part Saturday in a massive project to plant trees, officials said.
ASSISI, Italy, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, visiting the Italian birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, called on the Catholic Church to do more to serve the poor.
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Mexican authorities turned over an alleged drug baron wanted in the slayings of eight police officers in June.
BEIJING, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Chinese weather forecasters raised a red alert Saturday in anticipation of Typhoon Fitow, which was expected to hit the mainland Sunday night.
TEHRAN, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed support for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's participation in renewed talks on Iran's nuclear program.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A diplomatic impasse may result in the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2014, U.S. negotiators say.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Turkish writer has been charged with insulting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by making a pun about his middle name, officials say.
CAIRO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Two Egyptian soldiers were killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked an armored personnel carrier Friday on a road east of Cairo, officials say.
BRADFORD, England, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A British mother was found guilty on manslaughter for starving her 4-year-old son to death and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
BANGKOK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Massive flooding in Thailand has claimed the lives of 30 people as of Friday, and has affected as many as 3 million people, officials said.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. embassy in Madagascar is warning against travel to certain places in the country after two suspected organ traffickers were tortured and killed.
BERLIN, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its rival, the Social Democrats, Friday began exploratory coalition talks, officials said.
TOKYO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. was ordered to bring the massive amount of radioactive water being spewed by the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex under control.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has cautioned that if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons it will be "immortal, like North Korea."
CALAIS, France, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- French police Friday began to remove about 60 Syrian refugees who have blocked a walkway to a port building in Calais where ships depart for Britain.
ROME, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi could be ousted from the Italian Parliament after a Senate panel Friday said it had voted to strip him of his seat.
HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The United Nations Friday urged Vietnam to reconsider the conviction of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who was found guilty of tax evasion.
HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, known for his defeat of French troops at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam, passed away Friday at the age of 102.
MOMBASA, Kenya, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Kenyan police said they were involved in running battles with rioters Friday after a militant Muslim cleric and three other men were shot dead in Mombasa.
United States Team member Tiger Woods (L) kisses girlfriend Lindsey Vonn on the 18th green after he and teammate Matt Kuchar defeated International Team members Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Adam Scott of Australia 1-up during the third round four-ball competition at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 5, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey
