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Afghan election commission workers sort ballots for an audit of the presidential run-off votes in front of international observers at an election commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. One of two men vying to become the president of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, pulled his observers Wednesday from an audit of the country's disputed election over concerns of widespread fraud in a move that throws the already contentious election into further crisis. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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Afghan presidential candidates pull out of audit

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August 27, 2014 1:40 pm

Afghan election commission workers sort ballots for an audit of the presidential run-off votes at an election commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai said in a statement that the inauguration ceremony for the next country's president will be held on September 2, 2014 and it is not subject to change. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

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Afghan candidate threatens boycott of vote audit

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August 26, 2014 6:07 pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, speaks in front of local and international media representatives as presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah, right, and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, left , listen during the Independence Day ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. King Amanullah won the country's independency from Britain in 1919. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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Afghanistan bars NYT reporter from leaving country

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August 19, 2014 6:51 pm

Sidiqullah holds a photograph of his brother, who went missing in Nov. 2012, during U.S. military operations in Wardak province, at a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The U.S. failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, the international rights group Amnesty International said Monday. NATO said it investigates all credible reports of civilian casualties, without responding to the group's specific claims.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Report criticizes US over Afghan civilian deaths

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August 11, 2014 2:10 pm

Afghans search for survivors after Friday's landslide buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Afghan rescuers and hundreds of volunteers armed with shovels rushed on Saturday to help villagers hit by a massive landslide in the remote northeast a day earlier, officials said, while fears of a new torrent of mud and earth complicated rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Gulrahim Niazman)

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Rescuers struggle to help Afghans hit by landslide

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May 3, 2014 5:34 pm