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Afghan vote runs up against fear, disenchantment (AP)

August 24th, 2010

In this Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 photo, Afghan women walk past election posters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. After a fraud-ridden presidential election last year that nearly undermined President Hamid Karzai's legitimacy and binternational/b support, the Sept. 18 parliamentary ballot is being watched closely as a test of whether the Afghan government is serious about reform. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - A shopkeeper in Kandahar city says what others are thinking: Casting a ballot in next month’s Afghan parliamentary election isn’t worth the risk.


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Ugandans use hand tools to dig out mud; 86 dead (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

In this photo made from TV people are seen in hospital in the Bududa region of Uganda, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, following heavy rains which triggered landslides. Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and survivors said Tuesday. Rains that began Monday evening continued through the night, triggering landslides in the Bududa region, 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of Kampala. Uganda's minister of state for disaster preparedness said the army would join the rescue effort. (AP Photo / APTN)AP - It was mid-afternoon and had been raining buckets when shopkeeper Michael Nabude looked up and saw a patch of mud slide down a mountain. Fearing a landslide, he…

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