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Afghan officials unveil plans for runoff

Oct. 30, 2009
A decision to have more voting centers angers Western officials who had sought to reduce the number from the first round in August, in hopes of curbing fraud. Afghan election officials said Thursday that they would increase the number of voting centers for next week's presidential runoff...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic