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Afghan president appears to win by default; U.S. pushes to cancel runoff vote

Nov. 1, 2009
Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, pulls out, fearing a repeat of the earlier fraud-plagued election. The uproar comes as President Obama weighs whether to send in tens of thousands more troops. The withdrawal today of President Hamid Karzai's only rival in an election runoff effectively...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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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