High alert for Karzai inauguration
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s capital is under tight security for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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With security at its highest level since elections in October, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president in Kabul.
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KABUL (Afghanistan) - Polling has started in Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election on Saturday, with interim leader Hamid Karzai widely favoured against more than a dozen rivals while 100,000 troops were on high alert for expected violence
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President Hamid Karzai took the helm yesterday of a country whose revival is threatened by a growing opium trade and a persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging to bring stability and prosperity to Afghanistan even as rebels made attacks near the Pakistani
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The new president of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, is due to be sworn in amid high security in the capital, Grozny.
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Authorities have taken necessary measures ahead of presidential inauguration to ensure a peaceful oath taking ceremony of Hamid Karzai as the first directly elected president of Afghanistan.
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On the eve of Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, Muslim clerics urged Friday worshippers to embrace democracy, election workers scurried to ready voting booths and 100,000 troops went on high alert across the country.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president today, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Hamid Karzai was due to be sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected President on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by two of the figures most responsible for easing him into power.
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Afghanistan will hold its first presidential election in decades on October 9th. Among the 18 candidates vying for office is incumbent President Hamid Karzai, a respected but sometimes controversial figure
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Hamid Karzai will be sworn in as his country's first elected president Tuesday, facing a huge amount of more work to rebuild a land still traumatized by more than a quarter century of war.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, and new Cabinet members during the swearing in ceremony of the country&#39;s new Cabinet at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Dec. 24.
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More than 100,000 Afghan and foreign security forces were on high alert Friday, the day before the country's first direct presidential election after more than two decades of war.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed confidence that his administration would emerge from a historic presidential election next weekend with increased legitimacy.
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AFGHANISTANâS capital Kabul was placed under tight security today for the historic inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the countryâs first popularly elected president.
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Papers in Afghanistan have welcomed the inauguration on Tuesday of Hamid Karzai as president, but warn that the country faces many challenges.