Top Headlines
- Karzai wins as Afghan run-off cancelled
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai was declared the victor of the war-torn country's presidential election as a run-off vote was cancelled after his opponent withdrew.
- Afghan challenger drops out of election
- Abdullah Abdullah has announced he won't participate in the Nov. 7 run-off presidential election against incumbent President Hamid Karzai.
- Kandahar spy blimp raises privacy concerns
- An unmanned spy blimp floating high above the city of Kandahar is being praised by military officials as a useful security tool, but criticized by Afghan locals who say it violates their privacy.
- Karzai wins as Afghan run-off cancelled
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai was declared the victor of the war-torn country's presidential election as a run-off vote was cancelled after his opponent withdrew.
- Afghan challenger drops out of election
- Abdullah Abdullah has announced he won't participate in the Nov. 7 run-off presidential election against incumbent President Hamid Karzai.
- Kandahar spy blimp raises privacy concerns
- An unmanned spy blimp floating high above the city of Kandahar is being praised by military officials as a useful security tool, but criticized by Afghan locals who say it violates their privacy.
- Afghanistan rejects UN advice on run-off vote
- Afghan election officials said Thursday that there will be more voting centres for next week's presidential run-off than in the fraud-tainted first-round vote in August, rejecting UN recommendations to eliminate sites to prevent cheating.
- Ottawa mulled pulling Afghan control from military: Hillier
- The Harper government considered taking day-to-day control of the mission in Kandahar away from the military and giving it to Canada's ambassador in Kabul.
- Afghanistan prepares for Nov. 7 vote
- The United Nations began delivering ballots and voting kits across Afghanistan on Thursday in preparation for the Nov. 7 run-off vote in the country's presidential election.
- Karzai rival predicts more voters in Afghan run-off
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief political rival has agreed to take part in the Nov. 7 run-off election and is predicting a higher turnout than in the previous vote.
- Karzai agrees to Afghan run-off election
- International leaders welcomed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's acceptance of a run-off vote but said there were still challenges to overcome in making Afghanistan's electoral process fair.
- Hillier wanted Canadians in safer Kabul: memoir
- Canada's former top soldier Rick Hillier says in his new book that he argued for Canadian troops to be kept in the relative safety of Kabul, rather than the volatile southern Afghan region of Kandahar.
- UN panel invalidates thousands of Afghan votes
- NATO allies, including Canada, are pressuring Hamid Karzai to accept either a run-off election or a power-sharing government after a UN-backed agency declared invalid ballots from thousands of polling stations.
