Karzai clinches Afghan poll win
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KABUL - President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s transitional leader Hamid Karzai has won the war-shattered country&#39;s first-ever presidential election. the announcement came after a special panel endorsed the election results as free and fair.
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Hamid Karzai nears victory in Afghanistan's presidential election with 60% of votes halfway through the count.
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Description: Interim President Hamid Karzai is the unofficial winner of this month&#39;s Afghan national elections, according to preliminary results.
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai won a landslide  victory in Afghanistan's first ever presidential election at  the weekend, according to an exit poll conducted by a U.S.  think tank.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said Tuesday, after early returns gave him a commanding advantage.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A top election official says vote counting is through in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election. The election&#39;s top technical officer told The Associated Press that US-backed interim president Hamid Karzai is the winner.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of  victory in his country's historic presidential poll, but the  result will not be announced for a day or so until the last few  ballot boxes are counted, an official said Monday.
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Sign of retaining Afghan presidency by the incumbent President Hamid Karzai became stronger Thursday as he has secured 59.1 percent of over 53 percent of the total votes counted so far, according to the update figure of Afghan election website.
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KABUL Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board Wednesday after an international panel announced that irregularities it had investigated
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The main rivals of Afghan President Hamid Karzai swallowed their bitterness on Thursday over cases of vote fraud and accepted defeat a day after a UN-Afghan election panel declared Karzai the winner of a historic Oct. 9 election.
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Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election Wednesday, after a three-week probe into vote fraud found no grounds to invalidate his triumph.
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Kabul, Nov. 4 (NNN): Hamid Karzai has been officially declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election. The chairman of the nation&#39;s electoral board made the announcement at a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday afternoon.
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the Afghan election, securing over 55 % and paving for the way for him to become the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai has clinched a majority of the votes in Afghanistanâs first presidential election under near-complete results today, leaving him all but certain of becoming the war-torn nationâs first democratically-elected leader.
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Hamid Karzaiâs chief rivals in Afghanistanâs presidential election conceded defeat today after the US-backed interim leader was declared its first popularly elected leader.
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US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai was nearing victory in Afghanistanâs presidential vote, election officials said, as the number of ballots counted passed the half way mark.