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BIREH, Lebanon - Syria's war barrelled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly street battles in Beirut and raised fears that Lebanon is getting drawn into the chaos afflicting its neighbour.

CHICAGO - NATO's top official says he was optimistic that Pakistan will re-open key transit routes to Afghanistan in the "very near future."

CANNES, France - Where better than Cannes, the current epicenter of international glamor, to find a Bond girl?

TEHRAN, Iran - The head of the U.N nuclear watchdog, in Tehran on a key mission that could lead to the resumption of probes on whether Iran has secretly worked on a nuclear weapon, said Monday that he met with Iranian leaders amid a "good atmosphere."

SANAA, Yemen - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal Monday in Yemen's capital, killing 96 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years, officials said.

WASHINGTON - A man testified Monday that he saw Roger Clemens at a 1998 Jose Canseco pool party that the former pitcher has denied attending, which is one of the false statements prosecutors allege Clemens made in his 2008 congressional deposition.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The June child sex-abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will not be delayed, a judge ruled Monday.

CHICAGO - The arc of Stephen Harper's views on Afghanistan might have been summed in his body language Monday as he and other NATO leaders met to discuss the alliance's problem child.