• Afghanistan looking to burnish image of police officers, going after crooked cops
    Afghanistan looking to burnish image of police officers, going after crooked cops The Canadian Press - Fri Jan 29, 11:39 AM

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghanistan will drastically overhaul the way it polices the police in a once-and-for-all effort to cleanse a national force so rotten with corruption it elicits comparisons to the Mafia's deep roots in Italy.

  • Six militants die in south Afghan shoot-out
    Six militants die in south Afghan shoot-out AFP - Fri Jan 29, 11:15 AM

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - An eight-hour shoot-out in southern Afghanistan ended on Friday with the deaths of six insurgents who had occupied a building near government offices, officials said.

  • Clinton says no talking to 'really bad guys' in Taliban
    Clinton says no talking to 'really bad guys' in Taliban AFP - Fri Jan 29, 10:51 AM

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ruled out talking to the "really bad guys" in Afghanistan, promising that a new drive to woo moderate Taliban would not set back women's rights.

  • Taliban say no decision yet on Karzai offer of talks
    Taliban say no decision yet on Karzai offer of talks Reuters - Fri Jan 29, 10:01 AM

    KABUL/LASHKAR GAH (Reuters) - Taliban leaders will decide soon whether to join talks with the Afghan government, a militant spokesman said on Friday, after President Hamid Karzai invited them to a peace council aimed at ending the Afghan war.

  • Khadr repatriation overturned by top court CBC - Fri Jan 29, 8:39 AM

    The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned lower-court orders that the government must try to repatriate Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

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