By ANITA CHANG
2010-09-02T17:47:52Z
BEIJING (AP) -- Census takers counting China's more than 1.3 billion people already face a daunting task, and it's getting harder for the latest once-a-decade update....
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
2010-09-02T17:45:31Z
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this month's parliamentary elections....
By ANNE GEARAN
2010-09-02T17:33:27Z
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. is working on new ways to prevent American funds from fostering corruption in Afghanistan, but adds that the fight against Afghan bribery and graft must be led by Afghans....
By FRANK JORDANS
2010-09-02T17:03:00Z
GENEVA (AP) -- A report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period won't be released until October, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday, after Rwanda angrily protested the findings in a draft version....
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2010-09-02T16:43:03Z
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A Ugandan court has charged two additional suspects in connection with the July bomb blasts that killed 76 people....
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
2010-09-02T16:40:40Z
LONDON (AP) -- BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. telecommunications chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored....
By MAGGIE FICK
2010-09-02T16:27:10Z
AGOK, Sudan (AP) -- Four months before Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum, tensions are already rising in this oil-rich region that sits on the expected future border, with allegations the central government is using violence and ethnic cleansing to sway the vote....
By DEB RIECHMANN
2010-09-02T16:12:10Z
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan's finance minister reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government....
By ARIEL DAVID
2010-09-02T15:35:03Z
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency, providing information on war criminals and Germans working in Arab countries, according to a new book released Thursday....
By ERIKA KINETZ
2010-09-02T15:00:15Z
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications - not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion - to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype....
