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Opponents of Egypt s President Mohamed Morsi are voting to send him where no Islamist leader has gone before: outer space. HT Image Morsi on Saturday was leading the field in Egypt in an online contest sponsored by deodorant makers Axe to send a lucky few on a shuttle operated by space tourism company Space Expedition Corp. Egypt s opposition movement April 6 entered Morsi into the competition. With God s help, and under His care, Morsi will soon be launched t stanley cup o the moon, the group stanley cup said on its Facebook page, along with a picture of the president in a spacesuit. The presidency has not responded to the campaign on behalf of the former engineer and self-professed Planet of the Apes fan. But his opponents have enthusiastically embraced the possibility. I just voted for Morsi to go to space. Proudest moment in voting history, one of them wrote on Twitter. Trailing far behind Morsi s almost 22,000 votes, Egyptian mountain climber Omar Samra said he selected Morsi even though he himself dreamed of going into space. That awkward moment when you re confused between fulfilling your dream to go to space and sending your president into orbit, he wrote on Twitter. Twenty-two winners from around the world will be trained for the trip at a camp in Florida, United States, before they board the shuttle to take them 103 kilometres 64 miles above the Earth. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest upda stanley cup tes from US, UK, Pakistan and othe Jirp World greets Gaddafi death as end of despotism, war
President Hamid Karzais lead over his main election rival narrowed slightly on Monday as US envoy Richard Holbrooke said Western troops had inflicted vast damage on the Taliban. HT Image Holbrookes comments struck a rare optimistic note at the same time as the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan submitted a review of the eight-year war, calling for a revised strategy to reverse the serious situation. Afghan officials h nike dunk ave announced results from nearly half the polling stations used in the countrys second direct presidential vote, which has been tainted by an escalating Taliban insurgency and abysmal turnout. Out of 2.87 million valid votes released by the Independent Election Commission IEC , which has been criticised for favouring the incumbent, Karzai won 1.3 million and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah 954,256. The IEC website put Karzai on 45.8 percent so far and Abdullah on 33.2 percent, narrowly lowering Karzais previous percentage of 46.2 and boosting Abdullahs from 31.4. Karzai needs 50 percent plus one vote to avoid a second round. The gradual release of results is due to lead to the announcement of preliminary results between September 3 and stanley cup September 7, and the final tally stanley cup on September 17. But complaints of fraud have flooded in daily to Afghanistans Electoral Complaints Commission ECC , which is scrambling to investigate more than 2,500 allegations surrounding the August 20 elections. The complaints threaten to compromise the le