Kabul vetoes Ashdown envoy role
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Afghanistan makes it clear it does not want Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy to the country.
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The U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, is helping to persuade Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai's rivals to drop a threat not to recognize the result.
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A diplomatic row erupted on Wednesday  between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul ordered  the expulsion of a Briton and Irishman working for the EU and  the UN, accusing them of threatening state security.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into vote counting centers across Afghanistan on Monday, while an independent panel will probe allegations the landmark election was marred by fraud.    Organizers of the vote are hoping the establishment of the panel - made up of about three foreign election experts - will end an opposition boycott that could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai named a new Cabinet yesterday, firing the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nation's first democratically elected president.
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Afghanistan has ordered two foreign officials to leave the country for threatening national security, a presidential spokesman said, denying his earlier statement that the men had been arrested.
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Bangladesh's main opposition called off a four-day transport blockade after the interim government bowed to pressure to replace an election chief accused of seeking to rig January polls.
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A diplomatic row erupted on Wednesday between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul ordered the expulsion of a Briton and Irishman working for the EU and the UN, accusing them of threatening state security.
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The US embassy in Kabul is advising Americans in the Afghan capital to restrict their movements after a deadly car bomb late Sunday killed about a dozen people outside the offices of a US security company.
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Two diplomats accused of dealing with the Taleban are kicked out of Afghanistan after the failure of talks.
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The United States ambassador to Afghanistan denies allegations he is meddling in the country&#39;s first direct presidential election, to be held on October 9. US ambassador to Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, says that
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The chief rival to Afghan President Hamid  Karzai in last week's historic presidential election said on  Monday he and several other candidates had dropped a plan to  boycott the election process.
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Paddy Ashdown presents his plan after he was rebuffed as U.N. special envoy.
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Afghanistan nominated its former   finance minister, Ashraf Ghani, for the post of U.N.   secretary-general, the seventh candidate in the race, the   Security Council president said on Wednesday.
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British politician and former soldier Paddy Ashdown has agreed to become the United Nations' envoy to Afghanistan, a source close to negotiations on the post said on Wednesday.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai aborted an election campaign trip to the southeastern  province of Gardez on Thursday after a rocket exploded just  before he was due to land by helicopter.
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President Hamid Karzai will likely reject as unconstitutional a draft bill adopted by the lower house that gives amnesty for crimes and abuse in Afghanistan's 25 years of war, his spokesman said.