Canada stops Afghan detainee transfers
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The Canadian government stopped transferring prisoners in Afghanistan to local Afghan authorities after witnessing evidence of torture, according to a newly released government letter.
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OTTAWA/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan President   Hamid Karzai urged Canada to stay the course in his war-torn   country, where 19 people were killed on Friday by Taliban   forces who have also targeted foreign peacekeepers.
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Public support in Canada for its  participation in NATO peacekeeping in Afghanistan could  dissolve if other allies do not help its troops in the violent  south, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said on Tuesday.
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Military prosecutors have appealed a decision to dismiss charges against a Canadian man held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on Cuba, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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The US Defense Department announced the transfer of 35 detainees from Guantanamo Bay Naval Station (GTMO) in Cuba to Pakistan.
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Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.
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OTTAWA -- Canadian police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting US agents to deport him to Syria, where he says he was tortured, an official inquiry concluded yesterday. Maher Arar, who holds Canadian and Syrian nationality, was arrested in New York in September 2002 and accused of being an Al Qaeda member. Arar, 36, says ...
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Canada sent senior officials to Paris on Friday to sound out the French government on a possible offer of support for 2,500 Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had temporarily stopped the expulsion of illegal Afghans for "humanitarian reasons" after Kabul called for an immediate halt, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Canada said on Friday it plans to keep its 2,500-strong military mission in Afghanistan until the end of 2011, almost three years longer than initially scheduled, and wants to shift the focus to training Afghan forces.
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Canadian NATO soldiers keeps watch from a fortified position in a volatile area in Panjwayi district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, 09 November 2006.Comment
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Canada apologises for listing the US and Israel as countries where prisoners are at risk of torture.
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Canada's Supreme Court struck down the government's right to detain foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial, ruling Friday that the system violates the country's bill of rights.
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Pair deported after Kabul government denounces them for 'negotiating' with Taliban
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai asks Canada to stand firm in its military support for Afghanistan despite losses.
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A Canadian who was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan and a Yemeni accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden confront terrorism charges Monday under a reconfigured military tribunal system that critics say remains unconstitutional.
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Iran freezes bank accounts of a former Afghan warlord with links to the Taleban and al-Qaeda, the UN says.