GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry - and erupting in anger - in the world's poorest countries....

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....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A new book claims renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency, providing information on war criminals and Germans working in Arab countries....

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....

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....

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....

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A Ugandan court has charged two additional suspects in connection with the July bomb blasts that killed 76 people....

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....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government....