Karzai hopeful unhurt by blast
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TALIBAN attackers set off a roadside bomb near a convoy carrying the Afghan president&#39;s running mate and other dignitaries in north-eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one man and injuring five.
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KABUL, Oct 23  - Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election count passed the 80 percent mark with Hamid Karzai holding on to his clear majority on Saturday, but any potential celebrations were cut short by a suicide bomb blast in Kabul.
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KABUL: Hamid Karzai last night won Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote, but a suicide bombing offered a lethal reminder of the dangers still facing the war-weary nation.
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Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president amid tight security. There had been fears that supporters of the previous Taliban ruling regime would attempt to sabotage the ceremony in Kabul.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an  assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters  that a historic vote in four days would be a turning point for  the war-torn nation.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Assailants fired a rocket at an American helicopter taking President Hamid Karzai on a rare foray into Afghanistan's troubled provinces yesterday, but it missed and he escaped injury.
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rocket exploded near a helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai yesterday, forcing him to abandon his trip and raising questions about how difficult it will be for him
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An attempt to shoot down President Hamid Karzai's helicopter just three weeks before Afghanistan's elections is indicative of the fraught security situation which is threatening the success of the polls, analysts said.
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Afghanistan's presidential vote count neared its end with Hamid Karzai edging closer to victory, but a weekend suicide blast in Kabul offered a deadly reminder of the dangers facing the war-weary nation.
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An explosion in the Afghan capital  Kabul was 200 to 300 meters (yards) outside the U.S. embassy  and there were no U.S. casualties, a U.S. official said late on  Thursday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running  mate for Saturday's historic presidential election escaped  unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the  remote northeast of the country.  Vice presidential candidate Ahmad Zia Masood, the brother of  assassinated resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masood, had gone to  Faizabad, the capital of mountainous Badakhshan province, for a  campaign rally.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate for Saturday&#39;s historic presidential election escaped unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the remote northeast of the country.
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The Afghan president expresses deep concern after a bomb attack which left at least seven people dead.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running mate for Saturday's historic presidential election escaped unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the remote northeast of the country. Vice presidential candidate Ahmad Zia Masood, the brother of assassinated resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masood, had gone to Faizabad, the capital of mountainous Badakhshan province, for a campaign rally.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a rocket was fired at his helicopter as it was landing in the south-eastern town of Gardez.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai escapes unhurt after the Taleban fire rockets at a meeting he was addressing.