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A torn election poster of Hamid Karzai in Kabul on 18 November 2009
Afghanistan is set for President Hamid Karzai to be sworn in for a second term as the country's leader.

Extra police are deployed in Bangladesh ahead of a verdict in the trial of army officers accused of killing the first president.

Poverty and unemployment are seen as the main factors fuelling conflict in Afghanistan, according to a survey in that country.

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