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KABUL (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is living comfortably in a house in northwest Pakistan close to his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, CNN on Monday quoted a NATO official as saying. Full Story »

ROME - Iran took part in a high-level meeting on Afghanistan on Monday after the United States said it has no problem with its participation. Full Story »

ROME (Reuters) - The United States recognises that Iran has a role to play in resolving the Afghan conflict, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said on Monday, as Tehran joined talks with a high-level group on Afghanistan for the first time. Full Story »

BEIJING - Chinese authorities have allowed rowdy anti-Japanese demonstrations in several cities to defuse simmering public anger over a territorial dispute with Japan and to prevent the frustrations from being turned against the Chinese regime itself, analysts said Monday. Full Story »

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on political factions in Iraq to reach a consensus on forming a new government, state television reported on Monday. Full Story »

BEIJING (AFP) - The death toll from a coal mine blast in China rose to 31 on Monday, the government said, as hopes faded for six miners still trapped and anger grew among web users wishing for a Chile-style rescue. Full Story »

BEIJING - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was promoted to a key post in the Communist Party's military committee Monday, affirming his path to be the country's leader within three years. Full Story »

TIJUANA, Mexico - Mexican security forces seized at least 105 tons of U.S.-bound marijuana in the border city of Tijuana on Monday, by far the biggest pot bust in the country in recent years. Full Story »

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran gave its clearest nod of support to Iraq's prime minister Monday as he seeks to line up backing from key neighbors in his bid to remain in office after a more than seven-month political limbo in Baghdad. Full Story »

KABUL, Afghanistan - The NATO coalition said Monday that Afghan and international forces have choked insurgent supply routes in some parts of Afghanistan, prompting militants to extort money from citizens to keep their operations sufficiently supplied. Full Story »

DEAUVILLE, France - Russia sought to use a summit starting Monday to cement a greater role in Europe's security and foreign policy — a shift that France and Germany embrace but that's tougher to sell to the rest of the long-divided continent. Full Story »

Paris - Is Russia ready to join Europe? Is Europe ready to embrace Russia? Full Story »

The U.S. military wants to pound the Taliban as hard as it can to try to establish control in Afghanistan Full Story »

HANOI (AFP) - The death toll from floods caused by heavy rain in central Vietnam rose to 32 on Monday, with an unknown number missing after a bus became submerged, authorities said. Full Story »

A TIME reporter recounts wandering through Taliban country with U.S. Army scouts as they try to assess threat levels in the countryside around Kandahar Full Story »

ANKARA, Turkey - More than 150 Kurds, including a dozen elected mayors, went on trial Monday for alleged links with a Kurdish guerrilla group at a time when the Turkish government is engaged in efforts to reconcile with the members of this ethnic minority. Full Story »

HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli security forces arrested a Hamas MP at his home in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron early on Monday, Hamas and the Israeli military said. Full Story »

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Foreign journalists will not be allowed into Myanmar to cover the military-ruled country's first election in 20 years, election officials said Monday, issuing the latest restriction for an election widely criticized as a sham. Full Story »