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last SG · 2005-07-13T23:59:44+00:00

i like these, they look so ben ben and cute cute

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Afghan election campaign

Many methods have been used to raise election awareness including this game of Buzkashi, Afghanistan's national sport.

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Afghan election campaign

This mobile educational theatre company have performed their play 'New Hope' in 26 provinces across Afghanistan to increase knowledge about the elections.

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Afghan election campaign

One in four seats in the new parliament and in provincial councils are reserved for women.

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Afghan election campaign

Almost 2,800 people are contesting the elections. Most are not running under the banner of a political party.

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Afghan election campaign

This female candidate is canvassing for votes at a women's centre in Kabul.

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Afghan election campaign

There are a wide range of candidates including a handful of former Taleban officials. Mullah Mohammed Khaksar was a former Taleban deputy interior minister.

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Afghan election campaign

Just one type of ink will be used in this round of elections after the confusion caused by different types last time.

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Afghan election campaign

Ballot boxes have been arriving at warehouses in Kabul.

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Afghan election campaign

Polling station managers are briefed by the UN-supported Joint Electoral Management Body.

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AFP - Tue Sep 6,12:12 PM ET
A flooded street in Kagoshima. A powerful typhoon cut across southern Japan, leaving at least 21 dead or missing and injuring 53, as 100,000 people were ordered to shelter from floods and landslides.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

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AFP/File - Tue Sep 6,12:12 PM ET
A fallen tree lies on a road while rescue workers look for missing people in Tarumizu. A powerful typhoon cut across southern Japan, leaving at least 21 dead or missing and injuring 53, as 100,000 people were ordered to shelter from floods and landslides.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)

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Reuters - Tue Sep 6,12:47 PM ET
The fiery chilli pepper is being used to cool an ancient feud between farmers and wild elephants in Africa. In the Zambezi valley in southern Zambia, small-scale farmers are growing chilli peppers as a deterrent against elephants that raid their crops -- and marketing the end result as an eco-friendly product. The animals can wipe out the annual harvests of entire villages with devastating consequences for the rural poor who often live on a knife-edge of survival. (Steve Crisp/Reuters)

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AFP/NASA/File - Tue Sep 6, 1:12 PM ET
Image taken by cameras on board the Cassini Orbiter spacecraft and released by NASA shows the Earth's Moon. An experimental European probe has spotted a tiny area on the Moon that could be a promising site to set up a future manned outpost.(AFP/NASA/File)

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AFP/Pool - Tue Sep 6, 2:51 PM ET
Homes remain surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. Engineers worked feverishly to pump floodwater out of corpse-littered New Orleans, while President George W. Bush vowed to lead a probe of government lapses in responding to Hurricane Katrina.(AFP/Pool/David J. Phillip)

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AFP/File - Tue Sep 6, 3:43 PM ET
An alligator. Alligators are stalking the flooded waters of New Orleans and rescuers fear that they will eat the bodies of Hurricane Katrina's victims.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)

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AFP/File - Tue Sep 6, 6:01 PM ET
Customs officials inspect elephant tusks smuggled from Cameroon, Africa, in 2000. Cameroon police arrested three men after intercepting a military truck carrying 98 elephant tusks and the carcasses of deer, hedgehogs and protected chimpanzees, a police officer said.(AFP/File/Tao Chuan-Yeh)

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AFP - Tue Sep 6, 6:50 PM ET
Two dogs play atop a pool table at the Cajun's Pub in New Orleans, Louisiana. The pub never closed its doors and continue to serve drinks to the few costumers that remain in the neighborhood as residents evacuate the city following the passage of Hurricane Katrina that left a path of destruction and caused the evacuation on nearly one million residents.(AFP/Hector Mata)

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Reuters - Tue Sep 6, 4:56 PM ET
Fires burn near downtown New Orleans as floodwaters continue to surround homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina September 6, 2005. In the state's first major assessment of the environmental havoc in southern Louisiana, Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Mike McDaniel said large quantities of hazardous materials in damaged industrial plants, the danger of explosions and fires and water pollution were his main concerns eight days after the storm struck. (David J. Phillip/Pool/Reuters)

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AFP/File - Tue Sep 6, 8:28 PM ET
A boy plays with a screen in a planetarium in Rome showing the Comet Tempel 1 after the collision with a probe. The first detailed analysis from a US mission that smashed a hole in a comet suggests these wanderers are fragile agglomerations of dust, laced with carbon molecules that some theorists say sowed the seeds for life on Earth.(AFP/File/Alberto Pizzoli)

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AFP/File/HO - Tue Sep 6,11:17 PM ET
An iron ore train being loaded at Portman's Kooyanobbing Project in Western Australia. Stronger demand from Asian steel mills and higher commodities prices pushed Australia's mineral exports to a record of more than 51.5 billion US dollars for the year to June(AFP/File/HO)

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