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According to media reports, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour defended Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's delivering a Confederate History Month proclamation with no mention of slavery.

There's "not a chance" the U. S.-Russian arms-reduction treaty would win Senate approval this year, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said on Sunday.

Alexander said on "Fox News Sunday", "With the Supreme Court pushing to the front of the agenda in the Senate and jobs, terror and debt being our major issues we should be worrying about, this is a treaty for next year."

Military officials said on Sunday that an Afghan soldier fired on NATO troops, wounding a Polish soldier, and then fled.

CNN has reported that the injured soldier remained hospitalized after the Saturday attack in the eastern province of Ghazni and international forces and Afghan troops were searching for the shooter.

The country's defense ministry said that the Afghan National Army soldier opened fire during an argument.

A document has shown that Henry Kissinger, while U. S. secretary of state, halted a plan to warn South American dictators against international political assassinations.

The newly declassified document reveals Kissinger halted the warning days before a bombing linked to Chile killed two people in Washington, The Los Angeles Times has reported.

According to media reports, Sudanese voters, using a system officials said was intended to avert fraud, cast ballots Sunday in the country's first multiparty elections since 1986.

Radio France Internationale has reported that some of the country's more than 16 million people voted for presidential, parliamentary and state assembly candidates in the first of three days of polling.

Officials have said that Victor Orban's conservative opposition party defeated the socialist MSZP government in first-round parliamentary elections in Hungary on Sunday.

The New York Times has reported that with 99 percent of votes counted, MSZP conceded defeat to Orban's Fidesz party, which had garnered nearly 53 percent of votes to 19 percent for the Socialists. The far-right Jobbik party, which has attacked "Gypsy crime" and Jews, captured 16.7 percent of the vote.