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Afghanistan's Karzai agrees to runoff

Oct. 20, 2009
Afghanistan will hold a runoff presidential election November 7, as incumbent Hamid Karzai bowed to international pressure over claims of widespread vote fraud. Karzai will face Abdullah Abdullah in the second round after neither candidate secured more than 50 percent of the vote in the August 20...
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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