Turnout Seen as Uneven in Afghanistan as Polls Close
By CARLOTTA GALL and STEPHEN FARRELL
KABUL — Voters defied threats from the Taliban and rocket attacks on Thursday in an election that has become a critical benchmark of the nation’s progress.
KABUL — Voters defied threats from the Taliban and rocket attacks on Thursday in an election that has become a critical benchmark of the nation’s progress.
With donkeys carrying some ballot boxes back to Kabul, results could take weeks to count, Reuters reported.
Afghanistan's President Karzai faces two strong challengers in the presidential elections: Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani.
PARIS — The government says it expects to turn a profit of over $900 million after helping to rescue the troubled bank.
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency hired contractors from Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to officials.
LONDON — The decision to release the former Libyan intelligence agent on compassionate grounds was made after his lawyers said he was dying of prostate cancer.
BEIJING — The lead pollution from an unlicensed manganese smelter is the second incident of mass lead poisoning in the past month.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates faced pressure to reassign members of the 600-soldier operation elsewhere.
KARACHI, Pakistan — President Obamas representatives must defend American foreign policy initiatives in Pakistan in the face of rising anti-American sentiments.
PARIS — The ministers supermarket visit was met by supportive shoppers. The supermarket later admitted to staging the reception.
BAGHDAD — Insurgents struck at the heart of Iraqs government, killing at least 95 people in the worst attacks since U.S. forces handed over security responsibilities in June.
LONDON — There were strong signs that the Scottish government had decided to release the Libyan prisoner convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
BUENOS AIRES — The decision to allow those convicted to remain free pending appeal and to absolve the band playing at the club that night prompted an uproar.
Already under review over its potential earthquake risk, a major test of geothermal energy faces further setbacks.
A writer returned to Afghanistan to buy a bus for Afghan girls who were attacked on their walk to school. But giving isn’t always easy.
“One of the many things wrong with this approach is that the C.I.A. needs to accept whatever lawful oversight is required and then take responsibility ... for carrying out such lethal actions,” writes MC in Seattle.
John Burns, the Times’s chief foreign correspondent, answers readers’ questions about the value of Afghan elections taking place today.
The ’80s are back, with shoulders, neon and Hammer pants. Is this fashion’s idea of a stimulus?
Should the U.S. just let the Taliban run the country again?
Officials fear that if the factories leave, so will designers, hurting the city’s image.
When meditation, finally, worked for Robert Wright, the benefits went beyond a newfound empathy for lizards and a reassessment of his views on weeds.
Otto, a singer, occupies a place as unusual and unlikely as his name.
Did the president make a blunder by not having a specific reform plan?
Spain is putting construction workers back to work on public infrastructure.
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