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Kabul IS blast: Afghan capital buries victims of huge bombing
Funerals have taken place in Kabul for victims of Saturday's suicide bomb attack claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), which killed 80 people. Bodies were still being collected from morgues as the first burials were conducted in the west of the city. The bomber targeted a protest march by members of the Hazara minority,...
Kabul blast: Afghanistan mourns protest bombing victims
Afghanistan is observing a day of national mourning after suicide bombers killed 80 people and wounded 230 in an attack on marchers in Kabul. So-called Islamic State (IS), the Sunni Muslim militant group, has said it was behind Saturday's attack on members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority. In a televised address,...
Many injured in Taiwan train blast
An explosion ripped through a busy commuter train in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, late on Thursday injuring at least 24 people, police say. The blast hit a train at Taipei's Songshan station before midnight leaving some passengers badly burned. Police told local media they found a broken tube with explosive material inside...
Gunmen Take Guests Hostage After Blast at Somalia Hotel
Gunmen who stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital have taken an unknown number of hotel guests hostage, police said Saturday, as the attackers set up snipers on the rooftop and threw grenades. Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of hotel assaults in Mogadishu. Capt. Mohamed...
Turkey: ‘IS’ link to deadly Gaziantep blast
A suicide car bomber has killed two policemen in south-eastern Turkey. The bomb went off outside police headquarters in the south-eastern city of Gaziantep, near the Syria border. More than 20 people, some of them civilians, were injured in the early-morning explosion, which was heard several kilometres away. Police later...
BREAKING: ‘Dozens dead’ after Taliban suicide blast near US embassy rocks city
DOZENS of people have been killed and more than 200 seriously injured following a Taliban suicide car bomb attack on Afghanistan's national security agency. The attack, in Kabul, took plae at around 9.45 am local time, with witnesses saying the "very loud" blast hit the busy Puli Mahmood Khan area. The Taliban...
Pakistan: Dozens of young lives lost in Lahore blast
It was a treat for passing their exams. Twelve-year-old Sahil and his cousin Aman John, 13, had been studying hard for weeks. Their parents had promised them an Easter weekend trip to a popular park, with amusement rides, a lake and a zoo, in the Pakistani city of Lahore. But the family outing ended in tragedy, according to CNN...
Thailand: Boat blast injures 60 in Bangkok
Thailand: Boat blast injures 60 in Bangkok. Sixty people have been hospitalised, mostly for burns, after the engine on a Bangkok commuter boat exploded and sent passengers leaping to a nearby pier or into the water. The crowded boat was ferrying passengers on Saturday on a major canal in the eastern outskirts of the Thai...