WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The prevailing mood in Israel about Iran’s nuclear facilities is hawkish and uncompromising. “It is a race against time, and time is winning,” said a key Israeli player. The Bush administration argues the clock won’t run out until Jan. 20, 2009, when the president turns things over to his successor. Barack Obama’s advisers are saying the clock should be reset to the results of next June’s Iranian presidential elections. John McCain, with Joseph Lieberman by his side, agrees with Israel’s hawks.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 14 (UPI) -- U.S. lawyers for terror detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan said Monday they intend to call other detainees to testify at his Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, trial.

FALLUJAH, Iraq, May 29 (UPI) -- Residents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah blamed the U.S. Marines for humiliating Islam by handing out coins with a Bible verse on them.

MANAMA, Bahrain, May 21 (UPI) -- A delegation of Iraqi officials spoke to the third session of a ministerial meeting with Chinese officials on bilateral commercial and other relations.

WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- It is unlikely the many terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba will face a jury trial before the end of the year, U.S. officials say.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. military judge has ruled that Osama bin Laden's driver will be allowed to send a note to alleged senior al-Qaida leaders also held at Guantanamo Bay.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. Navy lawyer says one of the three alleged plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has agreed to legal representation in his upcoming trial.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, March 16, 2008.

SANAA, Yemen, March 4 (UPI) -- Villagers in a province in southern Yemen fled to the capital Sanaa saying their local tribal elder threatened them for refusing to pay him annual alms.