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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has launched a submarine production line to ensure its forces are equipped to maintain security in the vital oil shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz waterway, the defense minister said on Monday.

LYON, France (Reuters) - Ground searches for the bodies of eight climbers lost in an avalanche on Mont Blanc at the weekend remained suspended on Monday due to unstable conditions on the mountain, authorities said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only U.S. politicians that can get Iraq's feuding Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the ruling coalition on Monday, deepening a political crisis that has diverted government attention from pressing security and economic problems.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is expected to open parliament on Tuesday after his ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC won key positions in the chamber.

PARIS (Reuters) - Overconfidence was probably a factor in the incident that led to the deaths of 10 French soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan, the French commander in the region was quoted as saying on Monday.

PERMATANG PAUH, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's opposition alliance, which backs Anwar Ibrahim in his bid to return to parliament, said on Monday that some of its supporters had been removed from voter lists ahead of a crucial by-election.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers meet on Monday to discuss pleas by Georgian separatists for Moscow to recognize their independence, a move that could stoke tensions with the West over Russia's military intervention in pro-Western Georgia.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Police shot dead at least one Muslim separatist demonstrator on Monday as authorities tried to enforce a curfew in disputed Kashmir in the face of some of biggest protests in two decades against India's rule.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ten people died on Sunday when a single-engine aircraft crashed in eastern Guatemala, including four U.S. citizens on a humanitarian mission and the plane's two pilots, local officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Along with TV cameras and funny hats, the 45,000 Democratic and Republican convention-goers will bring something more important to Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul: their credit cards.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police are braced for a major anti-government demonstration on Tuesday, with tens of thousands expected to take to the streets and speculation protesters may try to occupy the prime minister's compound.

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The military coup that toppled Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi this month threatens the future of democracy in Africa if left unchallenged, the deposed president's son said on Sunday.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan announced a national day of mourning for Tuesday after 65 people died at the weekend in one of the tiny Central Asian state's worst air disasters.

SEOUL (Reuters) - The presidents of China and South Korea at a summit on Monday called for cooperation in sputtering talks to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons while they pledged to boost trade between the major economic partners.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants attacked the home of a district government official in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Monday, killing three members of his family and seven guards, police said.

DENVER (Reuters) - Defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton urged her frustrated followers to fall in line behind Barack Obama on Monday as a party rift threatened to rain on Obama's nominating parade.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, a liberal icon who is battling brain cancer, will likely deliver a speech at the Democratic convention this week, nearly three months after undergoing brain surgery, the Boston Globe reported on Sunday.

LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - When Ilka Weingart first entered the abandoned east German butcher's store where she wanted to open a soap shop, she gaped at holes in the floor, decades-old layers of grime, and rust-colored stains.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have "the upper hand" and should be put on the list of banned organizations in Pakistan, said Asif Ali Zardari, who has been nominated by his party to be the country's next president.