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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The results of Afghanistan's landmark legislative elections were finalized Saturday after eight weeks of counting slowed by allegations of fraud, and observers said supporters of President Hamid Karzai appeared to be in the majority.
In the latest violence, meanwhile, militants pulled a deputy provincial governor from his car and fatally shot him before killing a former district chief while he prayed in a mosque.
Three policemen also were killed as the country's death toll from fighting neared 1,500 for the year, the deadliest since the Taliban's ouster in 2001. This year's death toll includes 86 U.S. troops.
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