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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says each allegation of fraud will be examined so that there will be no question of the outcome of the April 5 presidential election. The official says there were nearly 1,900 complaints but that's a lower number than in the last election. Partial results are being released later today, with full preliminary results due April 24. With eight candidates, a runoff appears likely.
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say at least 29 people, including 13 civilians and 16 rebels are dead in a weekend of shelling and firefights between Syrian government forces and rebels in the northern city of Aleppo. The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights says the civilians were killed when government aircraft dropped barrel bombs.
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The interior ministry says a security officer has been killed and five others wounded today in the first reported gunbattle in east Ukraine, where armed pro-Russia men have seized a number of law enforcement buildings in recent days. Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in Slovyansk. An Associated Press reporter on the ground didn't see any sign of violence.
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's optimism and caution about the future of the global economy from the world's top financial officials. A meeting yesterday of the International Monetary Fund and its sister institution the World Bank ended three days of talks among financial officials, who say they believe the global economy is strengthening but that growth remains fragile and open to risks, such as Ukraine.
BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.'s expert panel on climate change says necessity and reality don't match when it comes to reducing greenhouse gases to combat global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says right now, global emissions are actually on the rise, though they need to drop by 40-70 percent by 2050 to keep the global temperature rise below 2-degrees C (3.6-degree F).
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