Iran will strike back at any location from where attacks against it are mounted, Fars news agency quoted a senior military commander as saying Sunday.

"Any location which is used by the enemy for...

Mitt Romney won another decisive victory in Nevada over the weekend, his third out of a total of five contests to date. In what might be a surprise to many, he carried the Silver State caucuses with...

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If...

Former Kazakh state customs head Serik Baimaganbetov has been arrested on charges of abuse of office and large-scale bribery. His detention was announced on February 6 in a statement issued by...

Greece's two largest private and public sector unions have called for a 24-hour nationwide strike to begin on February 7 to protest austerity measures at the heart of measures aimed at rescuing...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has suspended Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador for two years for a doping offense committed during the 2010 Tour de France, which he went on to win. The...

Activists report 'most violent bombardment in recent days,' worse than an attack on the city on Friday which residents say killed more than 200...

BEIJING - Chinese officials denied reports that three ethnic Tibetans lit themselves on fire last Friday, according to a story on Monday in a state-controlled newspaper. The Global Times, a...

Elarabi slams use of heavy weapons against civilians hours after dozens are killed in shelling of Homs, says escalation is taking the crisis in "a serious...

Histadrut Labor Federation chairman Ofer Eini on Monday announced that a general strike in support of contract workers will begin on Wednesday. Banks, the Bank of Israel, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange...

IDF OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan decided Monday to strip Lt.-Col. Moly Cohen of his role as commander of the 74th Armored Battalion. The decision came after Cohen was suspended by IDF...

Anat Kamm, the former IDF OC Central Command secretary sentenced to four and a half years in prison for serious espionage crimes, petitioned the High Court of Justice on Monday over a bill proposing...

Police arrested nine people Monday suspected of being members of a Jerusalem cult. The man suspected of leading the cult and two of his helpers, who had been arrested in August on suspicion of sexual...

likening anti-fascist protesters to a Nazi mob and his supporters to Jews.Heinz-Christian Strache's comment that "We are the new Jews" to an undercover journalist at a Vienna ball that...

On Saturday, China and Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria which would have encouraged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power after nearly a year of...

A three-storey building caved in and some seaside cottages were destroyed by waves in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, near the epicentre of the quake 5km off the shore of Tayasan town and at a depth of...

The death toll from the capsizing of a boat that was trying to take 70 migrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico has risen to 18, local press said on...

The murder rate in Salvador de Bahia has more than doubled to 84 in the five days since the police went on strike on Tuesday night, demanding better pay and working conditions, local news reports...

State media on Monday defended China's decision to join Russia in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, a move that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a...

Myanmar's Election Commission on Monday gave opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the green light to run for parliamentary by-elections, another step toward political openness in a country...

I'm realizing how much I miss the simple wisdom of Rick Perry. Little things like how you know he thought some GOP primaries were called caucuses because they attracted only Caucasians. Or that...

'In this special year, I dedicate myself anew to your service': Queen's vow as Diamond Jubilee celebrations begin with 62-gun Royal Salute on Accession...

Innocent victim: A Syrian man holds a girl who activists say was seriously wounded in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs by shells fired by regime forces on...

Little fighter: Jasmine Carr is on the road to recovery after becoming the youngest person to have open heart surgery. Pictured here with proud parents James and...

Tragic: Hayley Fisk, right, was delighted to receive a Valentine's Day card from soldier fiance Kyle Marshall, left, but joy turned to heartbreak when moments later, she was told he had been...

After three years, Google Earth map has finally been updated to remove a gridlike pattern which sparked rumors that the underwater city of Atlantis had been...

OSLO: The Norway gunman who killed 77 people in twin attacks in July asked an Oslo court on Monday to release him immediately, saying his massacre was a "preventive attack against state...

WARSAW - The toll from Europe's killer cold snap kept climbing Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and at least three people died after a Bulgarian dam...

The bombardment came a day after the United States promised harsher sanctions against Damascus in response to Russian and Chinese vetoes of a draft U.N. resolution that would have backed an Arab...

Rival Palestinian factions have agreed to form a government of national unity and call new elections in a move that could end years of friction and divisions between Hamas and...

Egypt 's ruling military council has accused them of working to destabilise the country. The US State Department said it was seeking "clarification from the Egyptian government" in a...

The government denied shelling the city, however, and said "armed terrorist groups" were attacking civilians and police in several neighborhoods. The state-run news agency also said Monday that...

LONDON/CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Top executives at Glencore and Xstrata are hammering out the final details of a proposed $80 billion merger, including the premium on offer by the commodities trading...

PARIS - European activists who participated in American Internet protests last month learned that there was political power to be harnessed on the Web. Now they are putting that knowledge to use in...

An image taken from a video posted by Syrian opposition activists to the Youtube shows smoke rising from buildings in the city of Homs after an apparent rocket or mortar strike, Feb. 6, 2012....

(CBS News) The case of missing Utah mother Susan Powell took a horrific turn Sunday in Washington State. Officials say her husband, who was a person of interest in that case, killed their two...

(CBS/AP) Updated at 7:50 a.m. Eastern MANILA, Philippines - A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least 43 people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that...

would be extended for two more months . At the time, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner lauded the move to avoid a tax increase for millions of working Americans. But...

(CBS News) As the chaos and protests continue in Egypt, there are now threats to the safety and security of 19 Americans working there, including the son of a member of President Obama's own...

Eli Manning leads the New York Giants to their fourth NFL championship. Also, a father probed in the disappearance of his wife takes his own life, and those of their two young boys. All that and...

The relative said Monday that Sarah Obama was traveling to her home in the village of Kogelo, in western Kenya, when the accident happened Saturday night. He said the vehicle lost control and rolled...

A book by a former mistress of President John F Kennedy has revealed new details of their relationship. Extracts in the US media of Once Upon A Secret by Mimi Alford recount the affair she had with...

Mahmud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has agreed to lead an interim national consensus government to prepare for upcoming elections, under an agreement signed in the Qatari...

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake off the central Philippine island of Negros has killed at least six people, including two children, and dozens missing. Following dozens of aftershocks on Monday,...

His parents married two days before the crash of 1929. He was reared on nightmarish stories of currency that proved worthless, told by relatives whose patriarch had fled Germany in the dark of night...

>Check out CNN affiliates KIRO, KOMO, KUTV and KSTU for more on the story.(CNN) -- Shortly before he set fire to his Puyallup, Washington, house and killed himself and his two sons, Josh Powell --...

>Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" (Times Books) and author of the forthcoming book "Governing...

Officials and experts from 56 OSCE participating states and international organizations meet in Vienna to discuss ways to prevent and suppress money laundering and financing of terrorism (to February...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (left) welcomes a prisoner wearing a Hamas headband following the release of hundreds of prisoners from Israeli jails in...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami damaged many electric power stations. As a result, rolling blackouts and mandatory curbs on power consumption were put in place. The disaster highlighted...