LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The London inquiry into the Iraq war may ask for meetings with officials from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, the inquiry chairman said.
London in July launched a formal inquiry into the British role in the Iraq war from the planning stages in 2001 to the end of their combat operations in 2009.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A bipartisan discussion about jobs and the U.S. economy touched on how lawmakers can move ahead on healthcare reform, President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said his meeting Tuesday with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders went well and he hoped for more bipartisan meetings.
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STRASBOURG, France, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- EU lawmakers Tuesday approved the body's new Commission after a five-month delay.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The explosion that killed five people at a Connecticut power plant may have been touched off by a welder's torch, sources say.
TYLER, Texas, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Fires that broke out within 35 minutes of each other destroyed two Texas churches located just three miles apart, authorities said.
LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Ever since Iran's revolution which saw the Shah ousted on Feb. 11, 1979, its anniversary has been celebrated by the Iranian regime by way of a show of force.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A Texas woman convicted of tampering with evidence in a 2005 dismemberment slaying must be returned to jail while she awaits resentencing, a judge said.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- An Ohio doctor has confessed to killing his wife five years ago, the medic's brother says.
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A man's missing organs will be the focus of the Nevada Supreme Court's first case alleging mishandling of human remains.
REGINA, Saskatchewan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A routine speeding stop in Saskatchewan led to Royal Canadian Mounted Police discovering nearly $2 million worth of marijuana in a pickup truck, officials said.
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The international community should prepare to take stronger action to inhibit Iran's nuclear weapons hopes, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A Rochester, N.Y., woman whose 3-year-old daughter died in a fire after being left home alone has been acquitted of manslaughter.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Taliban sources claimed Tuesday their leader Hakimullah Mehsud was dead, though the details and a lack of official statements muddy the narrative.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The shaky Western-backed Transitional Federal Government, barely able to control a few blocks of the capital, appears to be bracing for a three-pronged military offensive against Islamist militants aligned with al-Qaida.
