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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is claiming that Western nations are conspiring to throw Iran into a serious drought (and thereby threaten its agriculture) by deliberately destroying rain clouds headed toward the country.

Former Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi has been sentenced to death in absentia for the murders of two people, and is due to be sentenced for 150 other charges of violence between 2005 and 2011. Meanwhile, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shitte Muslims in Iraq may be growing.

Tareq al-Hashemi, the fugitive vice president of Iraq, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death on Sunday.

Gov. Mitt Romney's tax plan is President George W. Bush's tax plan on steroids: it cuts taxes on upper-income adults and the uber-rich, and vectors the U.S. budget deficit to even higher levels.

U.S. President Barack Obama's speech Thursday night earned mixed reviews, but his reminder of the campaign promises he ran on in 2008 made members of the audience emotional. Obama reminded the audience that all Americans, Democrat and Republican, have problems that can be solved.

A puzzling murder mystery in the French Alps has taken on international import as more and more details about the slain members of a British-Iraqi family are uncovered.

John Kerry, the one-time presidential nominee of the Democratic Party back in 2004, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Thursday night to support President Barack Obama's candidacy for a second term. The senior senator from Massachusetts and the tenth most senior figure in the Senate had one of the best speeches of the night by most accounts. John Kerry Speech At DNC 2012 Rattles GOP, Romney-Ryan Ticket [VIDEO, FULL TRANSCRIPT]

Iran is sending in its Revolutionary Guard to aid Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, but it may not be enough as France and Turkey begin to lend assistance to the rebels.

The speech was curiously lacking in specifics about Obama's record to date, sticking instead to a vague framework for a potential second term. Here are a few of the things the president left out.

Obama's speech at the National Democratic Convention (DNC) 2012 in Charlotte Thursday not only instigated rounds of applause, but also broke a few Twitter records for political events. The speech was wildly popular on the social networking site, eliciting 52,757 tweets per minute, which was a new Twitter record for politics.

President Barack Obama made the case for change -- again -- after officially accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

The full advance text of the president's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Watch video and read the full text of Joe Biden's speech Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

The Democratic National Convention released a full transcript of Beau Biden's speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Proxy groups supported by Iran in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories gathered in Isfahan to reaffirm their struggle against Israel and the West. On Syria, though, they were less than enthusiastic.

The video, released on Thursday, highlights the pledges President Obama has kept since entering the White House. But what promises hasn't he kept?

Watch video and read the full text of Bill Clinton's speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

For a mere $8 billion, Iraq gets brand spanking new American fighter jets -- and a heavily armed neighborhood gets some more lethal, highly advanced weapons

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has said that she plans to relinquish her post soon, a potential second term for President Obama notwithstanding. That leaves an opening for Kerry, who will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

The United States is getting ready to finalize a deal for $1 billion in debt relief for Egypt, a move that could set a new tone for Egypt-U.S. relations.

Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and the Democratic Illinois congressional candidate, drew applauds for her speech lauding Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, N.C, Tuesday night.