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KABUL — Election officials declared Afghan President Hamid Karzai the winner of a new five-year term Monday, canceling a runoff election scheduled for Saturday just one day after Karzai’s sole challenger quit the race. The decision ended weeks of political drift since a first presidential poll in August was found invalid because of massive fraud. [...]
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected Taliban suicide bomb killed at least 35 people in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Monday, officials said, as the government announced a reward for the capture, dead or alive, of the group’s leaders. Read more
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai was returned to power after election officials canceled a needless run-off Monday, but was warned he would need to work harder to retain the West’s support after a flawed electoral process. Read more
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Hamid Karzai has been declared president of Afghanistan, after election officials scrapped a planned second round of voting. Read more
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has taken action at the World Trade Organization to overturn a European Union ban on imports of seal products on concerns by animal rights groups of brutality in the seal hunt, the government said on Monday. Read more
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Play Video Reuters  – Karzai declared Afghan president Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Video:Afghan Runoff Election Canceled ABC News Play Video Afghanistan Video:Drug War FOX News AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures to journalists as he heads to receive U.N. Secretary-General Ban … By HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writers Heidi Vogt And Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writers [...]
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Silvio Berlusconi will refuse to resign as prime minister of Italy, even if he is convicted in two corruption trials due to begin later this month. Read more
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Afghanistan\’s election commission cancels the runoff planned for Saturday and declares President Hamid Karzai the winner. Karzai\’s main rival for the presidency, Abdullah Abdullah, had dropped out of the contest yesterday over fraud concerns, effectively handing the incumbent a victory.\n\n Read more
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Detectives said a 44-year-old man known to both victims had been arrested on suspicion of murder. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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Every megalomaniac who fears assassination has them: Saddam and his son Uday, Hitler, Stalin, Hoxha, Noriega, Amin. Yet even in today’s digital age, it’s hard to tell who’s who when the leader is as reclusive as Kim Jong-Il, in such a closed-off society as North Korea. But would Kim have a body double so good [...]
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Dang. Tom Robinson was found guilty. Again. Every time I read or watch “To Kill a Mockingbird“Â I have the utterly irrational hope that, in this particular version or edition or print, the jury will recognize the cruel, racist absurdity behind the charges against Tom Robinson and acquit him. And yet attorney Atticus Finch [...]
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6:25am UK, Monday November 02, 2009 Ian Woods, Australia correspondent An oil rig has burst into flames off the coast of Australia sparking fears it will cause devastating environmental damage. [...]
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Chefs in France have made the world’s largest tiramisu. Twelve cooks worked through the night at a food festival in Villeurbanne to finish the dessert, BBC News reports. The finished pudding weighed over a tonne and is being stored in an ice rink. It has officially been recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s [...]
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Union workers at Ford Motor Co.’s Canadian division have backed a cost-cutting agreement that the Canadian Auto Workers reached with the automaker last week. Read more
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KABUL — Afghanistan’s presidential challenger announced Sunday he would not participate in next weekend’s runoff election because his demands for new measures to prevent fraud were rejected. He stopped short of calling on his supporters to boycott the balloting. Read more
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Californians could have some major choices to make about how the state is governed come next November. This week, initiatives that may appear on the Nov. 2010 ballot moved forward. One would call a… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]