Afghan President, Rival Campaign Despite Threats
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The two main rivals in Afghanistan's  first presidential election threw themselves into campaigning  Tuesday, drawing crowds of supporters four days before a vote  that many hope could be a turning point for the war-torn  nation.
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KABUL, Oct 19  - Interim leader Hamid Karzai stayed far ahead Tuesday with almost a third of the votes counted from Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election but Taliban-led guerrillas mounted more attacks in the south.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate escaped an assassination attempt Wednesday while campaigning in northern Afghanistan.
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Seeking to inject last-minute excitement into a lackluster campaign, a leading Afghan presidential candidate said Monday he is trying to team up with other contenders to topple heavily favored interim President Hamid Karzai.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main  opponent in a landmark election took center stage on Saturday,  while the incumbent, almost invisible during the campaign amid  security concerns, prepared to go to Germany to receive an  award.
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai remains on course to retain his position as counting continues in the country&#39;s first democratic election.
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A convoy carrying Afghan President Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate came under attack Wednesday in northeastern Afghanistan, the presidential palace and other officials said, the third attack on Karzai's supporters ahead of landmark weekend elections.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, campaigned outside Kabul yesterday for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters that Saturdayâs election would be a turning point for the war-torn nation.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, while the Taliban, ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion, vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than half the votes have been counted in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, and President Hamid Karzai is said to be running well ahead of his rivals.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Campaigning for Afghanistan's first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate.    Despite persistent violence, the United Nations declared this hard-luck nation ready for Saturday's vote, a historic experiment with democracy after more than two decades of unrelenting ruin, from Soviet occupation to civil war to the repressive Taliban and the thunderous U.S...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on   Tuesday shrugged off complaints from Pakistani President Pervez   Musharraf about his handling of a resurgent Taliban a day ahead   of joint talks with Musharraf and President George W. Bush.
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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.    Karzai, Afghanistan's stopgap president since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, had captured 62.6 percent of the 1.04 million ballots counted by Monday - about 13 percent of the vote...
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Afghanistan's presidential campaign draws to a close - a day after President Karzai holds his first rally.
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Afghanistan's historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country's first popularly elected president.
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Hamid Karzai remained on course on Friday to win Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but with a quarter of the vote still to be counted, rivals were whittling
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Afghanistan&#39;s presidential elections came off with little violence but some damaging controversy. President Hamid Karzai&#39;s 15 opponents charged vote fraud.