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Tempe, Ariz. - The final debate between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush was another set of fiery exchanges between the candidates on issues that included tax cuts, job creation, abortion, homeland security and same-sex marriage. Both men seemed well prepared and well versed on the topics, but neither appeared able to keep their tempers in check. Both Bush and Kerry demonstrated a testiness in their comments. Kabul - Vote counting in Afghanistan's presidential election officially started on Thursday, five days after the vote. President Hamid Karzai has collapsed and they are now endorsing a United Nations election investigation. Beijing - China and Russia settled the last of their decades-old border disputes Thursday, bringing an end to a conflict that at one time threatened to erupt into nuclear war. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao formalized the agreement during Putin's visit to Beijing. For the first time, the two countries are agreeing on where their 4,300-kilometre-long border lies. The struggle over the border erupted into violence in the 1960s and 1970s, feeding fears at the time that the conflict could end in a nuclear confrontation. The former Soviet Union once posted an estimated 700,000 soldiers on its side of the border, at a time when one million soldiers from the People's Liberation Army in China stood on the other side.
