Fresh violence mars Afghan vote count
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A deadly explosion has hit a car carrying an election worker in southeastern Afghanistan. In all, five people were killed, including the worker identified as a local physician who helped organize the vote.
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Violence marred the start of Afghanistan's New Year with a second US soldier killed in as many days and authorities hunting gunmen who tried to kidnap an elderly American aid worker in Kabul.
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After more than two decades of war, Afghanistan votes today in its first Presidential elections. And with the Taliban threatening to disrupt the polls, security is very tight across the country.
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Guerrillas from the ousted Taliban regime killed at least 12 soldiers in Afghanistan&#39;s south on Thursday in a sharp escalation of violence ahead of next month&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    In the second deadly incident surrounding the election, five people - including at least one election worker - were killed by an explosion as they drove near the Pakistan border, the joint U.N.-Afghan electoral commission said...
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Afghans vote Saturday in the first direct presidential elections in their history, under the threat of violence from anti-US militants and Osama bin Laden's terror network.
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KABUL, Afghanistan An international peacekeeper in Afghanistan&#39;s capital says a loud explosion has shaken Kabul early Friday -- the day before historic elections.
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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In Afghanistan, at least seven people, including two US soldiers, have died in separate incidents. The attacks come as the vote count in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election is under way.
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Unidentified gunmen opened fire on soldiers guarding polling precincts during special elections Saturday in 13 Philippine towns where voting was postponed last week over fears of violence.
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AFGHANISTAN KABUL -- A string of gun battles and bombings reported across Afghanistan yesterday killed 41 people, part of the largest wave of insurgent violence since the US-led invasion. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of two four-wheel-drive vehicles outside Kabul, wounding six. In Ghazni province, police killed 24 militants over the last 24 hours.
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Whatever the violence wreaked by the  Taliban and its allies over the next few days, Afghanistan's  first direct vote for a leader on Saturday is now unstoppable,  the U.S. envoy to Kabul said.
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As the war-weary Afghans are getting closer to the first-ever presidential polls, the spiraling violence is going to hamper the ongoing stabilization process in the post-war nation, observers here believe.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election closed on Saturday without any of the feared large-scale violence but the vote was thrown into turmoil instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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AT LEAST 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq, as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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US troops and helicopter gunships have killed 22 militants in southern Afghanistan in the latest violence ahead of historic elections.
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Weekend violence in the western city of Herat is a reminder of how volatile the situation in Afghanistan remains, three years after the US overthrew the Taliban and less than four weeks before presidential elections there.