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Wed 10 Oct 2009Karzai agrees to face second round of voting
KABUL – President Hamid Karzai agreed to face a second round of voting in Afghanistan’s disputed election yesterday after a UN-led fraud inquiry excluded enough of his votes to trigger a run-off.
The dispute around the August 20th vote has stoked tension between Mr Karzai and the West and complicated US president Barack Obama’s decision on whether to send thousands more US troops to Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban.
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