YANGON, Myanmar, May 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. Vietnam veteran imprisoned for trespassing at the Myanmar home of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was on a spiritual quest, his wife says.

HONG KONG, May 15 (UPI) -- Dutch photographer Hugh Van Es, 67, who shot stark photos of the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War, died Friday in a Hong Kong hospital, his family said.

DA NANG, Vietnam, April 22 (UPI) -- Groups advocating for people affected by the U.S. military's spraying of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war met in Da Nang this week to work on an action plan.

NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- A group of members at Riverside Church in New York have sued over the $600,000 salary to be paid the new minister.

ARLINGTON, Va., April 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the program changes he proposed last week reflected the need to "rebalance" the nation's military posture in light of recent operational experience. That is only half right. They also reflect the fact that 5 percent of the world's population -- the United States -- can no longer afford to sustain nearly 50 percent of global military outlays.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, April 6 (UPI) -- A notorious former Khmer Rouge prison commander on trial for war crimes says U.S. backing for Cambodia's right-wing government set the stage for genocide.

DELHI TOWNSHIP, Ohio, March 29 (UPI) -- A veterans' group wants the U.S. Postal Service to make its Purple Heart stamp into a forever stamp so it would not have to be reissued with rate hikes.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- Airstrikes serve as one of the most effective recruiting tools of America's opponents in Afghanistan, both because of the civilians killed and because when you attack someone from an invulnerable position -- that is to say, an altitude of 20,000 feet above the ground -- you make him want to fight you all the more.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 (UPI) -- Bill Ayers, who helped found the Weather Underground anti-war group, was involved in a deadly 1970 bombing in San Francisco, police union officials allege.