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A suicide car bomb has gone off in Mogadishu, targeting a hotel killing at least 13 people and destroyed buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street. Followed by a second bomb which killed a few more. The first deadly attack was huge and was carried out by the extremist group Al-Shabaab on Thursday, in a business centre in Maka Al Mukaram street which has hotels, shops and restaurants. It was one of the heaviest blasts to have hit Mogadishu in recent times. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. Then the second bomb went off, An hour after the first.…

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A deadly train crash which killed at least 25 people and injured dozens more was caused by a driver leaving his vehicle unattended without turning off its engine to speak with the driver of another train, according to Egypt’s prosecutor-general. Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek issued a statement revealing the preliminary results of an investigation into the crash, saying the train involved in the deadly collision had been on its way to a train yard when it was struck by another locomotive on an adjacent train line. The driver of the first train left it unattended without turning off its engine to speak with the other driver, who…

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Amid soaring tensions between Pakistan and India, a few local celebrities and public figures have reacted to the ongoing crisis but with remarkable restraint. https://twitter.com/Hadiqa_Kiani/status/1100433777535311873 https://twitter.com/MehboobaMufti/status/1100724973684092933 British minister to urge India, Pakistan to ‘exercise restraint’ British Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, Mark Field, has said that he will talk to Indian and Pakistani envoys to urge their countries to exercise restraint. Pakistani citizens call for captured Indian pilot to be treated with dignity https://twitter.com/Tooba_Sd/status/1100690622359453697 https://twitter.com/fbhutto/status/1100697706396291072 https://twitter.com/abbasnasir59/status/1100710205367685121 After the Pakistan state minister announced successful airstrikes across the Line of Control and subsequent capture of Indian pilot, prominent Pakistanis…

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