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Timeline: Afghanistan's 2009 presidential election
With Afghanistan's UN electoral watchdog poised to announce within days the result of a vote-rigging probe into the August 20 presidential ballot, we look back at the build-up to one of the country's most disputed votes.
USA
Investigators seek clues, motives for US army base shooting
A day after US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage, gunning down 13 of his colleagues at a Texas military base, investigators have been looking at possible motives for this shocking crime.
AFGHANISTAN
UN to relocate foreign staff
The United Nations says it will relocate around 600 non-Afghan workers, more than half of its foreign staff in the war-torn country, following an attack by Taliban militants in the capital last week in which five foreign UN workers were killed.
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Afghanistan: "Find the bastard and kill him" says UK
In today’s international press review, we look at Britain’s reaction to the death of five of its soldiers, allegedly killed by a rogue Afghan policeman.
AFGHANISTAN
UN to relocate 600 foreign staff, spokesman says
The UN has said it would relocate or evacuate more than half of its foreign staff in Afghanistan, following an attack by Taliban militants in which five foreign UN workers were killed in the capital in October.
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PAKISTAN
Four militants killed in US drone missile strike in tribal region
At least four militants were killed in a US drone strike in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan, officials have said. Washington says Islamist fighters are in the area, planning attacks on Western troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.
AFGHANISTAN
Policeman kills five UK soldiers at checkpoint
An Afghan policeman has killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint where the men, who all died of gunshot wounds, were mentoring their Afghan counterparts, the UK military says.
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Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai
Online debate over Karzai's election as the president of Afghanistan
In this edition: the web questions the credibility of the Afghan electoral process as Hamid Karzai has been declared winner of the presidential election and in New Zealand, a policeman creates the buzz.
AFGHANISTAN
Karzai vows clean, inclusive government
Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged to unify Afghans with a representative government that would fight corruption in his first speech since being declared winner of the fraud-ridden presidential election.
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AFGHANISTAN
Obama urges Karzai to wipe out corruption
US President Barack Obama has signalled a tough new approach to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, urging him just hours after his re-election to make "a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption" and write "a new chapter" in the country's history.
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