Abdullah Withdraws from Afghan Vote Audit

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the U.N.-supervised audit of June's disputed runoff election. The move, reported by Abdullah's spokesman and a U.N. official on Wednesday, further complicates Afghanistan's tense political transition. Abdullah's team has complained auditors have not been willing to throw out allegedly fraudulent votes, calling the process a "joke." Auditors are in their final stages of examining the eight...

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