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Afghanistan -- An elderly man walks through the Bird Street Market in Kabul, 19Oct2009 - AFGHANISTAN, Kabul : An elderly Afghan man walks through the Bird Street Market in Kabul on October 19, 2009. Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission on October 19 released a report into allegations of fraud in the country's presidential election, two months after the controversial polls.The report by the UN-backed commission is pivotal to a decision about whether Afghanistan can declare a new president or if the war-torn country must go to the polls for a second time. The ECC said it had delivered the results of its finding to the Independent Election Commission (IEC), ordering it to "invaldiate a certain percentage of each candidates' votes". top2009
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Georgia -- US actor Andy Garcia during the shooting of a scene in Tbilisi, 20Oct2009 - top2009
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Iraq -- An Iraqi weeps as he walks away from the ministries of justice and labour following a suicide bombing, 25Oct2009 - An Iraqi weeps as he walks away from the ministries of justice and labour following a suicide bombing on 25Oct2009. Twin suicide car bombs blasted the justice ministry and the provincial offices in central Baghdad killing at least 90 people and injuring 600 others.
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Pakistan -- A youth mourns as shops burn at a market following a deadly car bomb blast in Peshawar, 28Oct2009 - PAKISTAN, Peshawar : A Pakistani youth mourns as shops burn at a market following a deadly car bomb blast in Peshawar on October 28, 2009. A car bomb destroyed a packed Pakistani market October 28, slaughtering 80 people and underscoring the blood-drenched scale of the extremist threat
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