WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- The Hungarian Revolution and the Suez crisis were two of the most dramatic upheavals in international affairs in the post-World War II era. If Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities while President Bush is still the commander in chief, China and Russia might be tempted to take a page out of the old Soviet geopolitical playbook.

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MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- "The issue of confrontation with Russia, especially direct confrontation, is still, unfortunately, kept alive by our Pentagon partners," General of the Army Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia's Chief of the General Staff, said in a mid-December interview with RIA Novosti.

LONDON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- An elderly Russian says that as a young sailor he killed a legendary British spy when he caught him trying to place a mine on a Soviet ship.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- “I very much fear the risk of civil war” was the gist of the e-mail UPI received from Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani leader now under house arrest.

MOSCOW, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Despite the numerous technical and medical-biological problems it would face, a manned mission to Mars is being spoken about with more and more certainty.