Karzai says vote was fair

AFGHANISTAN: President Hamid Karzai defended Afghanistan's disputed presidential election on Thursday after preliminary results showed he won, and a suicide bomb attack on Italian troops tested the resolve of a major NATO ally. Sixteen people, including six Italian soldiers, died in the attack on an Italian military convoy within walking distance of the presidential palace in the capital Kabul, minutes after Karzai held a news conference there. KABUL, Friday, Reuters