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Two separate explosions go off near Afghanistan's parliament offices in Kabul, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.More than 20 people have been killed in twin suicide blasts near Afghanistan's parliament in the capital, Kabul, according to officials, in an attack claimed by the Afghan Taliban.Security officials said a suicide bomber blew himself up on Tuesday in the Darul Aman area of the city and was followed immediately by a car bomber in an apparently coordinated operation.
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Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish />UPDATE: At least 30 killed and 80 wounded in two suicide blasts near Afghanistan's parliament in Kabul[url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/twin-suicide-blasts-rock-afghanistan-capital-kabul-170110121912437.htmlhttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/twin-suicide-blasts-rock-afghanistan-capital-kabul-170110121912437.html[/url]
Rita Katz @Rita_Katz1)Breaking: #AfghanTaliban claims the double suicide op in #Kabul, killing &wounding“over 70 gunmen”, one by explosive vest, 2nd by car bomb
Bomb attack in Kandahar kills seven people and wounds 18, including Juma al-Kaabi and several other UAE diplomats.he ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Afghanistan has been wounded in the southeastern city of Kandahar in a bomb blast that also killed at least seven people.The attack on Tuesday, which took place during a meeting between senior officials and diplomats from the UAE embassy, wounded 17 others, including the provincial governor.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The killing of five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates in a bombing in southern Afghanistan marks the deadliest attack ever for the young nation's diplomatic corps, though it's too soon to tell who was behind it or if the Gulf envoys were even the targets.The federation of seven sheikhdoms, founded in 1971 on the Arabian Peninsula, said it would fly the nation's flag at half-staff for three days in honor of the dead from the attack Tuesday in Kandahar.
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The New York Police Department is providing officers with specialized training to stop any suicide bombers at Sunday's New Year's Eve celebration, when up to 2 million people will flood the streets of Times Square, officials said on Thursday.
