Britain’s Brown
firm on Afghanistan

LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan’s government on Friday to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.

Brown said success in Afghanistan is vital to Britain’s security — but declared that if the Afghan government does not mend its ways it will forfeit the world’s support.

“I am not prepared to put the lives of British men and women in harm’s way for a government that does not stand up against corruption,” he said.

Leaders wanted
for climate deal

BARCELONA, Spain — After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world’s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.

Negotiators from industrial nations, including the United States, said eleventh-hour promises are possible and a global warming pact can be reached.

‘Too-fat to kill’
suspect convicted

HACKENSACK, N.J.— A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man’s defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.

Edward Ates looked down and shook his head in court as he was found guilty of murder and weapons counts for killing Paul Duncsak, who was shot six times at his home in Ramsey, about 25 miles northwest of New York.

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