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Afghan president says airstrike killed civilians

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....
21 min ago By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

UN to release Congo 'genocide' report in October

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....
1 hr ago By FRANK JORDANS

Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown

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....
3 hrs ago By ERIKA KINETZ

Uganda court charges 2 over deadly twin bombings

By 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....
1 hr ago

Sudan's north-south faultline worries about war

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....
2 hr ago By MAGGIE FICK

US Def Sec: Afghans should lead corruption fight

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....
33 min ago By ANNE GEARAN

AP Interview: UN telecoms chief urges data sharing

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....
1 hr ago By RAPHAEL G. SATTER

Book says Nazi hunter Wiesenthal worked for Mossad

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....
3 hrs ago By ARIEL DAVID

China census highlights growing rights awareness

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....
19 min ago By ANITA CHANG

Afghan official: Afghan govt will back Kabul Bank

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....
2 hr ago By DEB RIECHMANN

 

 

 

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