Afghanistan attacks
A controversial former Afghan warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, now a member of the Afghan parliament, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt which killed at least five of his bodyguards, police say. Earlier at least 16 people were killed in a suicide attack in Farah province in the south-west on the country.
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