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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- For the first time in a decade, Afghanistan's national police academy is training female officers to serve in the capital, interior ministry officials said Tuesday. More than 60 women began a six-month training course several months ago at the police academy in Kabul and are expected to graduate in two months, said Interior Minister Taj Mohammed Wardak. "We need more policewomen, and we're asking more to come," Wardak told The Associated Press. "Eventually we want 50 percent of our police forces staffed by women." The women will be deployed across the city at checkpoints, at the...