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Partial vote recount starts in Afghanistan

Source: Reuters

Kabul : Afghanistan | 2 months ago

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Afghan officials have started a partial vote recount from last month's presidential election in a long-awaited procedure due to bring to an end weeks of uncertainty over the ballot, a UN-backed watchdog said on Friday. Preliminary results from the August 20 election show incumbent Hamid...

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