Afghanistan gets first fashion show in decades
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Models strode down a catwalk in the  Afghan capital Kabul for the first time in decades this weekend  as two designers showed off their clothes behind the guarded  walls of a luxury hotel.
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Giorgio Armani made his name by forging a  fashion for relaxed formality but now he's bucking the trend  and taking on the French at the most intricate end of elegance  by launching his first haute couture show in Paris.
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A new project aims  to clean up and restore old Kabul
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Wartime security was rolled out for Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai as he addressed his first election campaign rally outside the capital amidst spiralling violence.
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The new Afghan cabinet has been sworn in at a ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul. The line-up replaces some key warlords with reformers and technocrats.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in Tuesday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, opening a new chapter for the impoverished country, which became a haven for international
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily January 21, 2005 - MILAN - Four days before Giorgio Armani sets out on his latest fashion frontier &#8211; staging his debut haute couture show in Paris at the age of 70 &#8211; the designer presented his fall/winter 2005/2006 men&#8217;s collection inspired by France&#8217;s most self-indulgent artist Jean Cocteau.
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Some 200 artworks from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul will begin a 17-month tour in the United States in May.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Kabul on Saturday on a suprise trip to Afghanistan, with plans to meet his country's troops here and the Afghan president.
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Canada's government offered its congratulations to Afghanistan following landmark presidential elections there this weekend.
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DEAR readers, the day has finally arrived, when Afghanistan saw the installation of its first democratically elected president. Hamid Karzai has a new face today: he is not an imposed
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After decades of rule by the bullet instead of the ballot box, war-weary Afghans could not hide their delight as they got the chance to vote in elections they hope will end years of conflict.
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The National Museum of Afghanistan has opened its first exhibition in 13 years, a display of pre-Islamic idols that were repaired after being smashed by the Taliban.
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KABUL - NATO peacekeepers and Afghan police will draw a tight security blanket over the Afghan capital in coming days as up to 50 foreign dignitaries descend on Kabul for President Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration on Tuesday, officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - A collection of pre-Islamic  wooden idols chopped up by the Taliban in 2001 in their drive  for a pure Muslim state is back on display in Afghanistan after  painstaking repair in a project financed by the Austrian  government.
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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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For the first time since independence in 1919, voters in Afghanistan will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president. Enthusiasm is high: more than 11 million registered