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  "id": 878862,
  "title": "Presidential vote counting halted in Zambia over alleged attacks on polling staff",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/presidential-vote-counting-halted-in-zambia-over-alleged-attacks-on-878862",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T13:48:10.000Z",
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  "summary": "Zambia’s electoral commission has suspended the counting of votes from Thursday’s presidential, parliamentary and local elections over alleged attacks on polling staff. The authority said the process would be halted nationwide with immediate effect as it expressed concern over reports of violence that had “resulted in the theft of marked ballot papers in ballot boxes”. [...] The post Presidential…",
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        "title": "Presidential vote counting halted in Zambia over alleged attacks on polling staff",
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        "title": "Presidential vote counting halted in Zambia over alleged attacks on polling staff",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/presidential-vote-counting-halted-in-zambia-over-alleged-attacks-on-871592",
        "published": "2026-08-14T12:44:31.000Z"
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