Rockets rain, truck bomb found ahead of Afghan vote
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KABUL : Rockets rained on Afghan cities and military posts and a huge truck bomb was seized as the war-weary nation prepared for Saturday&#39;s historic presidential elections under the threat of further militant attacks.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Engine failure brought down a UN helicopter sent to collect ballot boxes from northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, injuring no one but causing a new glitch in efforts to tally the results of the country's landmark presidential election.
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KANDAHAR -- A series of bombs went off at a United Nations voter registration office in western Afghanistan, police said yesterday, injuring six policemen, setting vehicles ablaze and shattering windows.
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Kabul - A fuel tanker rigged as a huge truck bomb was seized on the outskirts of Afghanistan&#39;s southern city of Kandahar on Friday on the eve of landmark elections, a spokesperson for Nato peacekeepers said.
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Ballots from Afghanistan's first direct  presidential election poured into collection centers across the  country Tuesday, brought by donkey, road and helicopter.
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There has been a loud explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul on the eve of the country's presidential elections.
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KABUL : Two men were killed when a bomb exploded as they were planting it outside a regional electoral campaign office of Afghanistan&#39;s US-backed President Hamid Karzai, an official said.
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The blast, that killed at least four people, was the deadliest bomb to strike Kabul in two years, and it came days before campaigning begins for the country's first-ever presidential elections in October.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;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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German Chancellor SchrÃ¶der will travel to Afghanistan next week despite a rocket attack near the German embassy in Kabul. The attack came a day before the country&#39;s first free presidential elections.
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KABUL/Kandahar, Oct. 9. - Gun battles, mine blasts and US air strikes on the day of Afghanistanâs first post-Taliban election left 38 people dead today, Afghan officials said, including three police officers escorting freshly filled ballot boxes.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Poll stations officially closed in Afghanistanâs historic presidential election on Saturday with no reports of any major attacks by Taliban militants who had vowed to sabotage the process.
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KABUL (Afghanistan): Afghanistan&#39;s President aborted a trip to a school after a rocket exploded just before his helicopter was due to land on Friday.
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Rockets rained on cities and military outposts across Afghanistan as the war-weary nation prepared to go to the polls in Saturday's historic presidential elections.
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A rocket slammed into the ground near where Afghan President Hamid Karzai's helicopter was approaching to land in an eastern city Thursday, forcing him to return to Kabul, officials said.
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6 October 2004 -- Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election drew to a close today amid violence, as the nation prepares to cast ballots in its first democratic vote on 9 October.
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KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination bid on Thursday when a rocket was fired at his US military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez, Reuters news service reported.