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Fraud May Void a Quarter of Afghan Votes, Officials Say

KABUL — The announcement of results from parliamentary elections was postponed as officials indicated that fraud — including ballot-box stuffing and intimidation — had tainted as many as a million votes.

China Rebukes U.S. Over Trade Inquiry

BEIJING — China dismissed the American inquiry into subsidies for clean-energy industries as election-season politics.

Who Needs Cash (or Borders)?

Ajay Banga, MasterCard’s new chief, is racing to take plastic to the rising middle class in India and beyond.

Iraqis crossing through a checkpoint manned by members of a Sunni Awakening Council in Baghdad.
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U.S. Allies in Iraq Quitting to Rejoin Rebels

BAQUBA, Iraq — The loss of Sunnis from the Awakening Councils, whose switch to the government’s side was pivotal in pulling Iraq back from sectarian war in 2006, poses a new threat.

Minister Denies Fuel Shortage at Paris Airport

PARIS — France’s transport minister insisted there was plenty of fuel for planes at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, despite strikes that forced aviation authorities to order some jets to arrive with enough fuel to get back home.

The Great Deflation
Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened

OSAKA, Japan — Economists are pointing to Japan, which has been trapped in low growth and deflation, as a dark vision of the future for the West.

Indian soldiers fought terrorists at the Taj Mahal Hotel in 2008.
U.S. Had Warnings on Plotter of Mumbai Attack

American officials received warnings from two wives of David Headley, who scouted for the Mumbai attacks that killed 163 people, that he was planning such an attack.

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Private and public sector workers attended a demonstration over pension reform in Paris on Saturday.
Fuel Supplies Low as French Protest Reform

PARIS — Diesel fuel supplies are running low around the city of Lyon as the country braces for new protests against government plans to raise the retirement age.

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Some villages in the Zhare district, above, are nearly deserted.
In Afghan South, U.S. Faces Frustrated Residents

KANDAHAR — Forces moving southwest of Kandahar can expect to find a disillusioned population in a badly damaged land.

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The town of Adado had been relatively peaceful.
Somali Militias Clash, Undermining New Strategy

NAIROBI — The United States and others have seen two moderate militias as the best hope of staving off the Shabab.

Latest News From Africa
The new distillery built for Captain Morgan spiced rum in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands.
Rum Battle in Caribbean Leaves Tax Hangover

Rum has set off a dispute between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands over a tax the U.S. treasury collects on it.

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Dennis Moser using blanks and his shotgun’s digital scope, which has a memory card that keeps track of his accuracy.
A Kind of Hunt That Even Deer Can Get Behind

LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES, Ky. — Armed with shotguns that employ blanks and digital scopes, tournament participants stalk but do not kill deer.

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