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A Japanese rocket has successfully delivered a South Korean satellite, possibly designed for military purposes, into orbit. The launch occurs a little more than a month after North Korea's spectacular rocket failure in mid-April.

The former KGB strongman maneuvered key allies into prominent posts, including naming the heavy-handed Moscow police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev as interior minister, who came down hard on anti-Putin protestors in recent weeks.

Yemen's president sacked at least one high ranking security chief on Monday afternoon following the deadly suicide bombing in Sanaa.

Led by New York's Eric Schneiderman, a group of 23 Democratic and Republican attorneys general asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold Montana's ban on direct corporate spending in local campaigns.

Baghdad believes such an arrangement contravenes Iraqi laws, while Kurds assert they can sign any contract regarding their natural resources according to the terms of the constitution.

The University of Notre Dame Monday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for a mandate requiring that religious organizations provide contraception coverage.

Tomislav Nikolic, a former extreme-nationalist who now leads the Serbian Progressive Party, was named the victor of Sunday's presidential elections in Serbia, beating incumbent President Boris Tadic of the Democratic Party.

Officials with French oil company Total on Monday announced one of the company's producing platforms in the North Sea has stopped leaking natural gas.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) suspended its share-buyback program on Monday, a move CEO Jamie Dimon said was intended to preserve capital.

During my many years of following American political thought, one overwhelming truth has emerged: There is nothing as powerful as an idea (be it intelligent or stupid) whose time has come.

The labor organizer who became a major voice in the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's successful 1994 U.S. Senate campaign against Mitt Romney resurfaced in another Obama re-election ad that hits Romney on his record at Bain Capital.

Mexican troops arrested the Los Zetas cartel commander who allegedly ordered the murder and decapitation of 49 people last week.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to announce that he will not be extending the mission of Canada's 950 military trainers currently in Afghanistan after international forces leave the country in 2014.

NATO will continue to work to bolster security in Afghanistan even as the international community gradually cedes control of combat operations, President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit in Chicago.

Israel has never sent troops to any other country in its history, the statement added.

East Texas has again been hit by an earthquake in a region that has seen a small rash of quakes in the past year.

Chinese fishermen captured and taken to North Korea have been safely returned, but mysteries surrounding the incident remain.

President Barack Obama raised nearly twice as much as likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney in April, but the pro-Romney Restore Our Future won the battle of the Super PACs.

The two sides have so far failed to agree on a strategy to re-open the vital supply routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which have been closed since a U.S. air-strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November.

Obama surrogate and Newark mayor Cory Booker quickly backtracked his Meet the Press comments after calling an Obama campaign ad that attacks Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital nauseating -- but, this being Cory Booker, the oft-occurring political tango unfolded on social media.

IAEA officials were denied entry into Parchin on two separate occasions earlier this year.

Emergency workers in northern Italy speedily built tent cities and makeshift shelters on Monday as aftershocks and tremors raise fear of further destruction.

The bomber mingled with soldiers before detonating the device near the presidential palace, eyewitnesses reported.

With no end in sight to the Air India Pilots' Strike that entered its 14th day Monday, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh would meet the Air India Union leaders later in the day to resolve the ongoing crisis. The strike has cost the national carrier over Rs. 23 billion.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People officially endorsed gay marriage, ending the shameful myth that African Americans don't support marriage equality, said Joe Solmonese, President of Human Rights Campaign, or HRC.

Serbia's rightist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic was leading in a presidential run-off on Sunday against liberal incumbent Boris Tadic by 50 percent to 47.7 percent, according to a preliminary unofficial projection.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan demurred at the chance to reveal his status as presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's potential running mate on Sunday's Meet The Press.

Congressional leaders John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi pointed fingers across the aisle on Sunday morning talk shows over the reemerging debt ceiling debate, calling for different approaches to the nation's budgetary problems.

NATO leaders met in Chicago on Sunday to discuss a way out of a wavering commitment in Afghanistan, amid the backdrop of a city brimming with protesters, a foiled terrorist plot, a bombing that killed two NATO soldiers, and President Barack Obama's own misgivings about the military action in Afghanistan laid bare in a lengthy New York Times report.