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Afghanistan Suicide Attack

News and issues making the headlines each day.

Officials in Kabul, say at least forty people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Shi'ite cultural centre in the west of the Afghan capital. An interior ministry spokesman said the main explosion was followed by two other blasts.

Also on the programme: The United Nations' Emergency Relief Co-ordinator has warned of an apocalyptic scenario in Yemen -- unless there are pauses in the fighting to get aid to civilians; The Bangladeshis defying their government to help Rohingya Muslims who have fled the violence in neighbouring Myanmar; And why Indians are joining laughing clubs.

(Photo: Afghan women mourn inside a hospital compound after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit: Reuters)

53 minutes

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Thu 28 Dec 2017 10:06GMT

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  • Thu 28 Dec 2017 10:06GMT

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