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Sep 2023
29m 36s

Suicide bombers attack mosques in differ...

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Explosion in Balochistan kills more than fifty people celebrating a religious holiday. Later, further north in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, there was a blast at a mosque inside a police compound. They're the worst attacks since July, when Islamic State militants in Pakistan killed more than forty people. Also: Sweden's prime minister uses a televi ... Show More
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