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Security officers aboard a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel to Istanbul, Turkey, allegedly prevented a man from hijacking the plane on Sunday. Israel's national El Al airline says the passenger pulled out a small knife and tried to break into the plane's cockpit. Authorities on board the Boeing 757-200 overpowered the man, and he was arrested when the plane landed safely in Istanbul.

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Republican and Democratic leaders spent Monday canvassing the country, campaigning for candidates in close races.

Iraq officially accepted a U.N. resolution Wednesday that will allow inspectors to see if the country has any illegal weapons. Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Al-Douri, delivered the nine-page letter of acceptance to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Al-Douri said that because Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction, the country's officials are not worried about letting...

Iraq is trying to determine the best way of dealing with a new U.N. Security Council resolution concerning the Gulf nation. On Friday, the United Nations unanimously passed the resolution, which calls on Iraq to allow inspectors back into the country to make sure Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction.

Prosecutors in Virginia say they will seek the death penalty for two suspected snipers accused of killing 10 people in the Washington, D.C. area.

In what appeared to be a big night for Republicans, the president's party took control of the Senate and held on to its dominance in the House of Representatives. It was the first time that a Republican president's party did not lose House seats in a midterm election. In Missouri, the site of a hotly contested seat in the Senate, Jim Talent defeated incumbant Democrat Jean Carnahan. That victory...