Reuters

Support for Abe's government fell to 36 percent, the survey showed, the lowest rate since he took the office in December 2013 and down from 38 percent in last month's poll.

U.S. stock futures rose 0.4 percent from late U.S. levels in early Asian trading Monday.

President Obama will present a plan Monday in Des Moines, Iowa, for aspiring college students to file the FAFSA application earlier.

An official with the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran said recent "discoveries" had made Iran confident of its reserves and a new mine would become operational soon.

Both sides have kept a tight lid on details of the talks, but have said that they are discussing a cost-saving health care collective that would pool all 142,000 active UAW members at the Detroit 3 companies into a single plan.

The guidelines, jointly issued by the Communist Party's Central Committee and the State Council, China's cabinet, included plans to clean up and integrate some state firms.

"I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate," al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said.

Hundreds of militants and more than 100 police and soldiers have died since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012.

"There were military supplies, they are ongoing and they will continue," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said on Sunday they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months.

The U.S. Federal Reserve takes center stage in the coming week, eclipsing industry data from China, another grim inflation reading from the euro zone and rate decisions in Japan and Switzerland.

Yemen's exiled government said on Sunday it would no longer attend U.N.-mediated peace talks with its Houthi adversaries.

Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb near a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey early on Sunday, killing two police officers and wounding five others, security sources said, marking the latest casualties in the region's worst violence in two decades.

Hong Kong's leader enjoys a special legal position that puts him above the legislature and judiciary, China's top official in the city said, raising some politicians' concerns about Beijing's expanding influence in the city.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Saturday that "significant progress" had been made toward a resolution of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow.

Cybersecurity has been a divisive issue between Washington and Beijing, with the United States accusing Chinese hackers of attacks on U.S. computers, a charge China denies.

The raids pummeled the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa and the southern city of Taiz.

By the end of 2017, Airbus will make four A320 aircraft a month in Mobile, Alabama, creating 1,000 jobs in the U.S.

The video, released late Friday as detectives seek to identify the suspects, shows two men apparently armed with handguns running into a building in Brooklyn, where the shooting occurred.

The so-called Butte Fire has destroyed 15 homes in rural Amador and Calaveras counties, and it threatens another 6,000 residences in California.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann likened Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's treatment of refugees to the Nazis' deportations of Jews and others to concentration camps.

Police said they have also detained a suspect.

The number of deaths may increase, al-Amr said. Many of the 238 people injured in the accident were only lightly wounded, he said.

Uranium can be used for civilian power production and scientific purposes, but is also a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.

The announcement comes almost one week after the authorities arrested Egypt's agriculture minister over corruption allegations.

A drone attack killed four men suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in northern Yemen on Saturday, tribal sources said, as a U.S. campaign against the militants goes on amid a wider civil war in the country.

The People's Action Party (PAP), which has ruled without interruption since 1965, brushed off an opposition challenge in the country's most hotly contested poll, increasing its share of both the popular vote and seats in parliament.

Floods swept houses off their foundations and crushed others under landslides after rivers burst their banks following days of rain. Kyodo News agency said three people were killed and 27 injured in the floods.

A report published Friday appeared to surprise elected officials, unions and industry leaders in Washington state, where Boeing now builds all 737s.