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Kabul Bomb Attack Kills More Than Forty
Islamic State group claim attack on Shia cultural centre
President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has condemned a suicide bomb attack on a Shia cultural centre in Kabul as a crime against humanity. Islamic state group claim the attack.
Also in the programme: George Weah, former world footballer of the year, is declared the winner of Liberia's presidential election and the story of Dhondup Wangchen, a dissident Tibetian filmmaker, who has reportedly fled China for the United States.
(Image: A man runs away as dust blows in the aftermath of bomb blast at a Shia cultural centre in Kabul, Afghanistan on 28th December 2017. Credit: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
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