This Al Jazeera English news update covers the elections in Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai believes he has won enough votes to avoid a runoff, but rival candidate Abdullah Abdullah claims he is in the lead. Also covered: the influence Taliban threats had on the election turnout, and v...
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(Al Jazeera English: November 2, 2009) After his chief rival Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from the runoff election, Hamid Karzai was named president of Afghanistan for five more years. In Pakistan, dozens have been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi. Also, international tribunals wa...
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(Al Jazeera English: October 19, 2009) The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission has finished sifting through thousands of allegedly fraudulent ballots in Afghanistan, and reports indicate that Hamid Karzai will face a runoff with his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah. Also, Sri Lankan trade wi...
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(Al Jazeera English: October 21, 2009) A runoff election is now scheduled to take place November 7 in Afghanistan following widespread fraud, and both incumbent President Hamid Karzai and rival Dr. Abdullah Abdullah have agreed to participate. Also, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency ha...
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After an electoral victory tainted by allegations of rampant fraud, corruption and voter intimidation, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai used the occasion
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This past week in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai began his second term after an election riddled with widespread fraud. At his inauguration, Karzai sat
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(Al Jazeera English: November 3, 2009) As Hamid Karzai begins his second term as president of Afghanistan, he vows to bring unity to the country, and to listen to the opposing voices of Abdullah Abdullah and the Taliban. Many Afghanis, however, still feel that Karzai stole the elections from Abd...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai accepts that there will be an election run-off on November 7, which US Senator John Kerry said shows 'statesmanship'.
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