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AT LEAST 13 people were killed and more than 30 injured yesterday when a suicide bomber targeted an election rally in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
It was the first attack since campaigning for October’s parliamentary elections began on Friday.
Supporters of parliamentary candidate Abdel Naser Momand had gathered at the rally in Kama district when the suicide bomber struck.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
