Afghanistan starts counting votes
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After delays over fraud charges and boycott threats, the vote count in Afghanistan's presidential election finally began, five days after millions of men and women defied the Taliban to have their first say in their country's destiny.
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An afghan electoral worker counts Yunus Qanooni&#39;s ballots papers at the counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 18.
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A UN worker sorts Hamid Karzai&#39;s ballot papers at a counting center in Kabul on Tuesday, Oct. 26. 2004. With 97.7 percent of ballots counted, Karzai has 55.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election began today, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy
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Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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KABUL Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election got under way on Thursday, five days after a landmark vote meant to cement a new era of stability after more than two decades of strife.
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Hamid Karzai is on course to retain the presidency in Afghanistan with more than half the votes counted in the country&#39;s first poll.
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Vote counting started Thursday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, widely expected to install US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai as the war-ravaged country&#39;s first popularly chosen president.
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The counting of votes in Afghanistan's presidential election has been completed, the election commission said.
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Mixing of the votes cast for the first-Afghan presidential elections began in parts of the country this morning, a spokesman of the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said Thursday evening.
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Somali officials began counting votes  cast by lawmakers Sunday in a presidential election aimed at  returning national government to the chaotic Horn of Africa  state for the first time in 13 years.
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With a threatened boycott of its historic  presidential election firmly relegated to the background,  Afghanistan took first steps on Tuesday to begin counting  votes.
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Vote counting started Thursday in Afghanistan's landmark election, widely expected to install U.S.-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai as the war-ravaged country's first popularly chosen president.
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Confusion surrounded the start of vote  counting in Afghanistan's landmark presidential poll on  Thursday, with some election officials saying the tally had  begun but others adamant it had not.
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Afghanistan&#39;s electoral commission gave the go-ahead for counting to begin today in the disputed presidential election after charges of fraudulent multiple voting forced a delay.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Vote counting in Afghanistan&#39;s historic elections is almost finished, with incumbent President Hamid Karzai on course to win a simple majority.
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Afghanistan has held its first direct national elections to vote for a new president. Interim President Hamid Karzai is being challenged by 15 other candidates.