JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Israel President Shimon Peres has embarked on a state visit to Brazil and Argentina, accompanied by an entourage of Israeli businessmen, his office said.

LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Britain will build 10 new nuclear power plants to supply up to 25 percent of the nation's electricity needs, the government's energy minister says.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a suspected suicide car bomber detonated his explosives in heavy traffic near Peshawar, Pakistan, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The ex-wife of D.C. Sniper John Muhammad says she has moved on from feeling guilty about her former husband's shooting spree in which 10 people died.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Renewing alliances and forging new partnerships are key goals for U.S. President Barack Obama when he makes his first trip to Asia, a senior official said.

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JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Israeli and Jordanian military forces concluded a joint one-day exercise simulating an earthquake and drilling rescue and emergency procedures, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The man called the D.C. Sniper, who created fear in Washington for weeks in 2002, will be executed Tuesday unless the Virginia governor steps in, officials say.

FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama travel to Fort Hood, Texas., Tuesday to participate in a memorial service for 13 massacre victims.

MIAMI, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Ida's rainfall was soaking the U.S. Gulf coastal states early Tuesday as the system neared landfall near Mobile, Ala., forecasters said.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, wanted in his country to serve a jail term, arrived Tuesday in Cambodia where he will be an economic adviser.

SEOUL, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- South and North Korean ships exchanged brief but heavy fire Tuesday which the South later described as "accidental" and the North an "armed provocation."

SEOUL, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called an emergency high-level meeting Tuesday after clashes between South and North Korean ships now seen as accidental.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The White House said Monday a report that President Barack Obama has decided to send a large number of troops to Afghanistan "is absolutely false."

TOKYO, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The Japanese Cabinet Tuesday authorized $5 billion in aid to Afghanistan during the next five years, the government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said.