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The blast happened in the Farah province on a road connecting the provincial capitals of Herat and Kandahar.
Police say the bomb was planted by Taliban insurgents in a bid to target Afghan and foreign security forces.
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Myanmar's junta chief turned president heads to India
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Three Latvian climbers die in fall from Mount McKinley in Alaska
Three Latvian climbers fell to their deaths on Mount McKinley in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, while a fourth team member survived and was rescued, a climbing organization from their home country said on Friday.
Chain-reaction bus crash on Virginia highway kills 5 people
Five people were killed and more than 40 others injured, three critically, after a tour bus plowed into a sport utility vehicle on Friday, triggering a fiery, chain-reaction crash on a US highway in Northern Virginia.
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