South Korea will \"firmly\" respond to future provocations from North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Monday, declaring that his nation \"cannot remain patient\" in the face of continued hostility from Pyongyang. FULL STORY NORTH KOREAN RESPONSE | CHINA PROPOSAL | SPECIAL COVERAGE

In public, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has consistently played down any U.S. military role in air strikes against al Qaeda targets in Yemen, but one of the secret U.S. cables published by WikiLeaks paints a different picture.

The former Soviet state of Moldova is holding Sunday its third parliamentary election in two years, with pro-western-leaning political factions hoping to break a stalemate that has left one of Europe\'s least economically developed nations without a president since the middle of last year.

The United States believes that North Korea is supplying Iran with long-range missiles, suggesting Iran has strike capabilities are stronger than discussed in public, according to one of the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables released Sunday.

More than three years ago, the outgoing U.S. ambassador in Zimbabwe, Christopher W. Dell, wrote a valedictory note about the government of President Robert Mugabe. It was titled simply \"The End is Nigh.\"

European Union finance ministers on Sunday agreed on an 85 billion euro (U.S. $113 billion) bailout package for Ireland.

Polls opened early Sunday in Haiti as voters struggling to overcome January\'s massive earthquake and a spreading cholera epidemic cast their ballots for president and other lawmakers on the fragile island nation.

An Argentinean court has charged and ordered the arrest of a man who allegedly fathered ten children with his daughter, a local government agency reported Saturday.

The Republican senator who opposes ratification this year of a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia made clear Sunday that politics, not policy, is the main issue.

MORENCI, Mich. (AP) - Southern Michigan authorities are searching for three young brothers reported missing after their father failed to turn them over to their mother and tried to..

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) - North Korea is condemning U.S.-South Korean war games as a "pretext for aggression."      A U.S. supercarrier and a S..

BRUSSELS (AP) - EU governments have approved an euro85 billion ($113 billion) bailout deal for Ireland.      A statement from the Irish government said Sun..

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Nearly all the major candidates in Haiti's presidential election have backed a statement calling for the cancellation of Sunday's election.The statemen..

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - FBI documents detail conversations between Mohamed Osman Mohamud and undercover agents, in which the Somali-born teen describes Pioneer Courthouse Square in P..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says WikiLeaks' decision to release classified U.S. diplomatic files endangers U.S. Diplomats, intelligence agents and democratic activists who se..

Authorities launched a massive sweep of the Alemao favela complex in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday morning.

South Korea and the U.S. begin joint military exercises off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in the Yellow Sea amid heightened tensions between the Koreas, a U.S. Forces Korea spokesman says. FULL COVERAGE | FULL STORY

The Guinean political party that finished second in the West African country\'s recent presidential runoff election will make an official complaint to the International Criminal Court, a senior party official told CNN on Saturday.

A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, on Friday evening, the Justice Department announced.

A plane crashed late Saturday in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, sending flames shooting through the air as firefighters worked feverishly to douse them, according to CNN affiliate GEO News.