Afghan Presidential Candidate Abdullah Rejects Vote Audit

Afghan Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says he rejects a U.N.-led vote audit aimed at clarifying who won the country's June 14 run-off election. President Barack Obama had called Abdullah and his rival Ashraf Ghani over the weekend to urge the candidates to accept the audit results and come to some kind of political compromise. But Abdullah insisted Monday he had won the national vote and said talks with Ghani on forming a unity government were deadlocked. The audit was...

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