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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that she fears Iran is moving to a military dictatorship and urged allies to back efforts to help change its course.

A winter storm brought freezing rain, sleet and snow to the Deep South on Monday for the second time in five days.

The pope is meeting Irish Catholic bishops Monday and Tuesday in the wake of a damning reports into the abuse of children by Catholic clergy.

At least 10 people are dead and others injured after a collision between commuter trains in the Belgian town of Halle, a government spokesman tells CNN.

Most of the area targeted in a major offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan is now under government control, the nation's military officials said Monday, amid resistance from militants in sporadic fighting.

An anti-whaling activist jumped aboard a Japanese security ship on Monday in a bid to make a citizen's arrest of its skipper over the sinking of their boat, an animal rights group said.

A Dominican man who is acting as a legal adviser to 10 Americans arrested on child kidnapping charges in Haiti is himself facing allegations of human trafficking in El Salvador and human smuggling charges in the United States.

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Two members of the U.S. Olympic delegation -- both gold medalists from previous Olympics -- suffered minor injuries Sunday in an accident as they were traveling in Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade, the White House said.

Japan's economy grew by 4.6 percent last quarter on an annualized basis, beating expectations and helping it remain as the world's second-largest economy.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for tougher actions against Iran after its president said they are stepping up production of highly enriched uranium.

NASA is extending the mission of the space shuttle Endeavour by a day so astronauts can do more work on the International Space Station, mission managers announced Sunday.

Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Dick Cheney, sparred Sunday over Iraq and the fight against terrorism, duking it out on the most prominent of platforms: the political TV talk show.

An Italian and an Iranian were among eight dead from a terror attack at an eatery popular among expatriates in the western Indian city of Pune, authorities said Sunday.

An Israeli man accused of having 23 wives and fathering 59 children was charged Sunday in a Tel Aviv court with multiple counts of sexual assault, rape, sodomy and enslavement.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said the European Union could do more to stand by his country amid a budget crisis that threatens EU political unity and budget rules.

The president of ConocoPhillips Alaska was killed in an avalanche and another person in his snowmobiling party is missing, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A drone attack targeting a militant compound killed six people in Pakistan's northwest Sunday.

Thousands gathered in downtown Beirut on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, a major event that altered the nation's political landscape.

Twelve Afghan civilians have been killed after rockets fired by coalition forces in southern Afghanistan missed their target during a major NATO assault against the Taliban.