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Interpol has issued alerts for at least two Pakistani Islamists wanted by India for last year’s terror strikes in Mumbai that killed more than 160 people. Karzai has 422,137 votes, compared to 330,711 for his nearest challenger, his former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah.
Last week’s elections in Afghanistan have been marred "by widespread fraud and intimidation" which could cast doubt on the legitimacy of the vote, six presidential candidates declared Tuesday. The candidates issued a joint statement as Afghanistan’s elections commission prepares to release preliminary voting results from the nation’s contested presidential race later in the day. A cabinet minister in the government of incumbent Afghan president Hamid Karzai claimed Tuesday that preliminary results showed Karzai won the election with 68 percent of the vote.
Making good on a threat of election day violence, the Taliban sliced off the index fingers of at least two people in Kandahar province, according to a vote monitoring group.
Hundreds of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers have moved into southern Afghanistan to protect citizens during upcoming elections, military officials said. Afghans will go to the polls on August 20 to vote in second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001
The Russian supreme court on Thursday overturned a not guilty verdict and ordered a retrial for three suspects in the killing of a journalist, a defense attorney said. The ruling overturns the February acquittal of three men in the October 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya
A suicide car bomber exploded at a crowded outdoor market in southern Iraq, killing at least 28 people and wounding 45 others Wednesday, officials said. Police officials did not elaborate on why the officers, based just north of London, were under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. According to Scotland Yard Tuesday, a fellow officer came forward with information which “raised concerns about the conduct of a small number of officers on Enfield borough” in connection to the arrests of five people in November.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan announced Monday he will run for re-election. The country’s electoral commission confirmed he had filed his candidacy
The African National Congress secured an expected landslide victory in this week’s South African general elections, paving the way for party leader Jacob Zuma to become president, according to results released Saturday. But the ANC, which has convincingly won every election since the end of apartheid in 1994, fell just short of retaining a two-thirds parliamentary majority that would have given it a mandate to change the constitution
Video appearing to show police hitting a man who later died in protests over last week’s G-20 summit in London sparked anger Wednesday and calls for an immediate criminal investigation. One opposition politician described the “unprovoked attack” on Ian Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor who was not taking part in the protest, as “sickening” and urged the officer to come forward
A man who collapsed and died near last week’s protests at the G-20 summit was shoved to the ground by police shortly before the collapse, according to a video of the incident posted on the Web site of the British daily The Guardian. A spokeswoman for the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is already investigating any contact Ian Tomlinson had with police before his death, said she is certain the man in the video is Tomlinson, 47, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital after his collapse on April 1. “However, that is not the question,” the spokeswoman said.