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Saturday 24 October 2020
At least 43 people are dead in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Timothy Weeks and Kevin King were abducted by gunmen in 2016.
“I will never see happiness in my life again,” the groom told a local TV station.
The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation.
The move stunned officials in Kabul who are involved in an intensifying push to end the 17-year conflict.
The attack targeted a religious celebration in the Afghan capital.
A double suicide blast in Kabul killed 25 people early this morning.
A wounded man in a hospital bed wept saying: “I don’t know where my daughters are. God damn the attackers!”
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Five people were killed and ten wounded in what’s been the third major attack in the city in several days.
The Afghan government the attack was carried out by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network with Pakistani backing.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
At least 18 people were killed, including 14 foreigners, in the 12-hour ordeal.
Afghan security forces killed all six attackers during the night-time siege.
Some anguished relatives were so distraught they crawled on the ground pulling their hair.
The incident started in the last hour.
“I rushed inside the mosque and saw all the worshippers covered in blood,” one witness said.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the blast.
The violence comes just three days after a bomb blast in the city killed 90 people.
The French and German embassies were damaged in the blast.
Many other trapped students were tweeting desperate messages for help.
The blast struck a group of ethnic Hazara demonstrators.
The five men are believed to be illegal immigrants from Afghanistan.
Over 50 people have been killed in the attacks.
They organised the march ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
NATO hasn’t yet released the nationalities of the victims.
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These photos show a people trying to carry on with life among the chaos.
Simon Chase had been living in Limavady with his partner and children. It’s understood he was working with an EU police mission.
A suicide bomber detonated his vest at the entrance to the Lebanese restaurant as two other militants opened fire on customers.
The penalty for married adulterers, as well as 100 lashes by whip for unmarried offenders, appears in a draft revision of the country’s penal code.
That’s the very dilemma facing postmen in Kabul, now a city of five million people.
The attacks illustrate that despite Kabul’s security blanket, the insurgency in Afghanistan is far from defeated.
At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded in the attack in the Afghan capital.
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The killing of the American, who worked as a contractor with the Nato command, is the first known insider attack by a woman in Afghanistan.
A U.S. special operations member was killed during the of an American doctor abducted by the Taliban.
Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber has blown himself up near Nato headquarters in Kabul, killing at least 6 people.
Five people were killed in the gun battle today just outside Kabul while two NATO service members were killed in a separate bomb attack in the south of the country.
WE’RE JUST OVER 10 days out from what has been called one of the most important US presidential elections ever.
The United States will vote on 3 November on whether to back four more years of a Donald Trump presidency or opt for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
TheJournal.ie will have you covered on the night itself and throughout the following day as results pour in.
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