Armed Men Attack Afghan Polling Station
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Armed men wounded one police officer at a refugee camp polling site in Pakistan, just hours before the Afghan refugees were to vote in their country's presidential election, police said Saturday.
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An Afghan vice-president survived an  assassination attempt Monday in the north and two soldiers from  U.S.-led forces were killed in a gunbattle in the southeast, as  violence escalated ahead of an Oct. 9 election.
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Two people have been killed in a bomb attack on an Afghanistan election rally held by President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the country&#39;s north.
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Gunmen attacked a police station and polling sites in the Chechen capital Saturday night, killing several people eight days before a special election to replace the region's assassinated president, according to Russian news agencies.
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Suspected militants bombed a polling station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two days before parliamentary elections considered crucial to restoring democracy.
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KABUL/Kandahar, Oct. 9. - Gun battles, mine blasts and US air strikes on the day of Afghanistanâs first post-Taliban election left 38 people dead today, Afghan officials said, including three police officers escorting freshly filled ballot boxes.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Poll stations officially closed in Afghanistanâs historic presidential election on Saturday with no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had vowed to sabotage the process.
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Gunmen attacked a police station and  voting centers in Russia's war-torn Chechnya, killing at least  11 people, Interfax news agency said Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Elections heralded as the dawn of democracy in war-ravaged Afghanistan will be hijacked by warlords able to intimidate voters and candidates to entrench their own power, a leading rights group warned today.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's presidential election were kidnapped by a gang of  armed men in the capital on Thursday, prompting a huge manhunt  by Afghan authorities and international peacekeepers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Officials and witnesses say foreign and Afghan security forces have raided houses in Kabul, smashing their way in and detaining several men.
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Men in military uniforms held up a United Nations vehicle in Kabul yesterday and abducted three election workers at gunpoint. It was the first kidnapping of UN or aid workers
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"Out the window I could see shots being fired at the guardpost by the gate"  In a coordinated assault rarely seen in Kabul, militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47s attacked the Afghan capital's most popular luxury hotel Monday, killing at least two people and wounding several, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.The 6:12 p.m. attack came on a night the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. An American inside said she saw a body she believed to be dead and pools of blood in the lobby, and hotel employees reported two dead. She said three foreigners were wounded. Read more
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Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades and rifles attack city's five-star hotel
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison today in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four inmates once suspected of belonging to the al-Qaida terrorism organization.
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Taliban fighters fired rockets in parts of Afghanistan on Friday, the eve of the first direct presidential election in the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...