Friday, November 20th, 2009

Brandon Sun

Google

Login

News

Home Page Local Provincial National World Sports Opinion Business Entertainment Lifestyles Agriculture

Classifieds

Classifieds Workopolis Obituaries Submit A Classified Ad

Features

RSS Feeds TV Listings Archive Search Stories Letter To The Editor Press Pass Carrier News Contact Us

Customer Service

Advertising Rates Online Subscriptions Newspaper Help/FAQ Online Help/FAQ

World

The Associated Press

Karzai makes plenty of promises

KABUL, Afghanistan — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai’s inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes — sober pledges to get tough on corruption and strengthen his own security forces so foreign troops can start going home. The question now is whether he has the will and ability to deliver.

Full Story

Winter Tails

More World News

Italian prosecutor: US student 'harboured hatred' for Briton; killed her in sex game

Floods batter UK's Lake District, policeman dies, hundreds rescued; Ireland also hard hit

US ambassador criticizes negative coverage of Obama's China visit by US media

French foreign minister tours Afghan village, meets tribal leaders to discuss aid

Train derails in eastern India after Maoist rebels blow up track, killing 1 passenger

Diarrhea and pneumonia are biggest child killers, but world is focused on AIDS and malaria

Mass animal sacrifice festival to go ahead in southern Nepal despite protests

Honduras interim president may leave temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on election

UN children's convention at 20: Indian boy embodies the plight of millions of downtrodden kids

Republicans assail US health care bill, Democrats set first vote in Senate Saturday night

US House committee sets fees on big firms and calls for audit of secretive Federal Reserve

3 teens accused of setting 15-year-old US boy on fire plead not guilty to attempted murder

Pentagon chief Gates says Afghan troop increase could follow Obama announcement swiftly

Clinton praises Karzai for outlining plans to crack down on corruption, vows to hold him to it

US-trained scientist and al-Qaida suspect says she's innocent, but will boycott NY trial

Peruvian police says gang killed people for their fat, allegedly for use in cosmetics

Key UN committee condemns rights violations in Myanmar and urges release of Aung San Suu Kyi

2 lions kill rare white tiger in zoo in northern Czech Republic

Mexican once nominated for Guinness title as world's oldest woman dies at 119

Sept. 11 trial is likely to test New York juries' aversion to the death penalty

UN urges help for 1 billion deprived children and hundreds of millions affected by violence

Sudan: 11 dead, 4 injured in attack in South Darfur

Cathy who? Briton little known at home or abroad gets plum EU foreign policy post

EU's low-profile new president made biggest splash for reading own haiku at press conference

Obama poised to follow in Lyndon Johnson's footsteps with health-care reform

Pentagon launches quick hunt for more Hasans, longer look at possible lapses in Fort Hood case

British Army defuses armour-piercing mortar in Northern Ireland city; IRA dissidents blamed

Egypt, Algeria in a growing diplomatic row caused by their bitter soccer rivalry

Muslim countries seek UN treaty to protect religion from blasphemy

US Senator Kerry's eldest daughter arrested in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk