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Taliban bomb in Kabul kills 95 in worst attack since May 2017

Bloomberg A Taliban suicide bomber detonated explosives in downtown Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 others in the worst attack since a truck bombing near the Afghan capital’s diplomatic zone last year. The bomber used an explosive-laden ambulance and reached the gate of the former Interior Ministry building, Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy spokesman for the ...

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US to seek to boost case against Iran during UN Washington visit

UNITED NATIONS / Reuters The United States will seek to boost its case for United Nations action against Iran when Security Council envoys visit Washington on Monday to view pieces of weapons that US Ambassador Nikki Haley says Tehran gave to Yemen’s Houthi group. Haley and her 14 council colleagues will also lunch with President Donald Trump, the US Mission ...

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May rejects Hammond’s modest Brexit

Bloomberg ­Prime Minister Theresa May’s office slapped down Philip Hammond for saying he hoped Brexit would bring only modest changes, after his comments enraged the euroskeptic lawmakers May needs to stay in her job. The chancellor of the exchequer said he wanted an ambitious Brexit deal that replicates Britain’s current easy trade terms with the EU and moves the economy ...

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