Karzai wins the presidency of Afghanistan
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HERAT, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has won a majority of votes in Afghanistan&#39;s election, effectively clinching a five-year term and becoming the country&#39;s first democratically elected leader, according to preliminary results released Sunday.
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Zakim Shah, chairman of Afghanistan&#39;s Joint Electoral Management Body, announces the winner of the country&#39;s first-ever presidential election in Kabul Nov. 3, 2004.
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Sign of retaining Afghan presidency by the incumbent President Hamid Karzai became stronger Thursday as he has secured 59.1 percent of over 53 percent of the total votes counted so far, according to the update figure of Afghan election website.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on course Tuesday for an outright victory in the country&#39;s historic presidential election with more than a quarter of the votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai was officially declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election yesterday, more than three weeks after votes were cast, giving him a five-year mandate to try to steer this country out of a quarter
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Hamid Karzai was finally declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election today, at the same time as the militants threatening to kill three UN hostages who were in the country to oversee the election pushed back their deadline by 12
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the presidential election, securing a new five-year term as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai won almost 60 percent of the vote in early counting from the Oct. 9 presidential election, according to the election Web site.
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25 October 2004 -- With nearly all the votes counted, Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai appears on his way to an outright victory in the initial round of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election.
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More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up Tuesday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.
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KABUL Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board Wednesday after an international panel announced that irregularities it had investigated
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- An Afghan electoral board spokesman says Hamid Karzai is the winner of that country&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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* Hamid Karzai, interim president elected by tribal grand council after ouster of Taliban. Favorite in election, ethnic Pashtun has become international celebrity drumming up billions in aid pledges, but image
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President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up yesterday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai is winning 55.4 percent of the vote in the country&#39;s first presidential election as counting nears an end, the United Nations said on its Web site.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on  course Tuesday for an outright victory in the country's  historic presidential election with more than a quarter of the  votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.