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At least four people were killed and six others wounded in a blast near a mosque and a media outlet…
AFP | Kabul | December 28, 2017 12:43 pm
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At least four people were killed and six others wounded in a blast near a mosque and a media outlet in Kabul today, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital.
“We do not know the target of the attack, there is a mosque and a media company (nearby),” interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said.
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The health ministry put the death toll at four and six wounded.
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The first thing I noticed in Istanbul was the sound. Not the noise of traffic or the chatter of tourists, but the haunting call to prayer drifting across the city from distant minarets.
India urged global action after a deadly Kabul strike even as Pakistan denied targeting civilians, deepening a fast-escalating conflict with Afghanistan and raising concerns over regional stability.
For more than three years, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have projected an image of seamless unity: one leader, one command, one vision.
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