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At least 64 people have been killed by a car bomb at a busy marketplace in northern Baghdad, officials say, recent attack in the Baghdad Market in among the worst single attacks in Iraq.

87 others individuals wounded in the blast, in the Shia district of Sadr City during the morning rush hour. So called Islamic State (IS) said it had carried out the assault.

The Sunni group, which commands swathes of western and northern Iraq, has often targeted. Many of the casualties included children and women, Iraqi police and medical sources said.

In an internet statement, IS said it targeted Shia militiamen.

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Belgian prosecutors state that DNA has identified an accomplice of gained Paris attacks defendant Salah Abdeslam.The guy is named as Najim Laachraoui, 24, still on the run. A statement said that his DNA had been found in houses used by the suspected jihadist network and he was using false ID.

Abdeslam is being interrogated and was captured in Brussels on Friday. French President Francois Hollande will after meet relatives of a number of the 130 killed in the 13 November strikes. Meanwhile, Abdeslam’s lawyer has denied Belgian media reports the suspect will end up an informer in return for more lenient treatment.So called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the Paris attacks. The Belgian prosecutor’s statement said that last September Abdeslam had travelled twice to the Hungarian capital Budapest, utilizing a rental car.

In the car were two other men, using fake Belgian identity cards together with the names Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid.

DNA seen at houses in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek and town of Auvelais has now identified as Laachraoui Soufiane Kayal.

Belgian police say Samir Bouzid was “most likely” Mohamed Belkaid. He was killed by a police sniper in a raid on a flat outside Brussels on 15 March.

The prosecutor appealed for public help in locating Laachraoui.

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A girl with dyslexia has won a handicap discrimination case against her company Starbucks after she was accused of falsifying files.

A tribunal found Meseret Kumulchew were discriminated against after making errors as a result of her problems with reading, writing and telling the time.

She told and was given lesser responsibilities at her division in London. Starbucks said it was in discussions.

As a manager at Starbucks in Clapham, south west London, Ms Kumulchew was responsible for entering the results in a duty roll and taking the temperature of refrigerators and water at particular times.

She was accused of falsifying the records after incorrectly entering info that was incorrect.

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A Taliban suicide bomber injure more than 18 others in the northern Balkh province and Monday killed at least three Afghan soldiers.

Afghan officials, citing initial reports from the scene, say a bus taking private of the Afghan National Army (ANA) was the target of the strike in the Dahdadi district.

Eyewitness told local reporters they saw at least 8 dead on the list of victims. Reports say there were three women who work in the army ranks in the province among the wounded.

Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, in a statement sent to reporters has claimed the insurgent group gave a much greater price and carried out the bombing.

He claimed the bomber boarded the bus just before it was readying to transport the ANA soldiers for their regular responsibilities and blew himself up.

Separately, a presidential palace guard was gunned down by unknown assailants in the eastern Nangarhar province. A

provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, says his mother was wounded and the security man was attacked inside his house.

The violence comes two days after Afghanistan, Pakistan, China as well as the United States declared that place could be taken by direct peace talks between Taliban representatives and Afghan government by the conclusion of the month.

Diplomats from the four nations met in Islamabad and agreed on a road map to market the Afghan peace discussions.

The Taliban is just not part of the four way dialogue and has rejected the weekend statement as “one sided affair” which would not produce any effects.

“Foreigners are continuing their war and killing innocent Afghans,” a Taliban official requesting anonymity told VOA, adding the only real option to end the war was for the foreign forces to withdraw from the country.

But the Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, insisted there are no preconditions when it comes to talking about the peace process. Once they do that, then we could get to the table…

But should you continue to get violence against women and kids, against security forces, you have no future,” said General Campbell.

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Flags will fly at half mast on all government buildings inside as well as outside the united states, the office of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, while a prayer service will likely be held in the capital Islamabad.

The assault bore a chilling similarity to some 2014 massacre in a school in nearby Peshawar which prompted an escalation of a national crack down on extremism and shocked the nation.

Security forces killed all four gunmen in the university strike, that was claimed with a Pakistani Taliban faction but labeled “un-Islamic” by the umbrella group’s leaders, who also vowed to hunt down those responsible.

Among those that perished was assistant chemistry professor Syed Hamid Husain who was lauded for challenging firing and the gunmen at them while his panicked pupils rushed for cover.

Most casualties were laid to rest according to Muslim custom, including Husain who had been entombed 80km east.

“He’d always help the pupils and he was the person who understood each of their secrets since they’d discuss each of their issues with him,” 22-year old geology student Waqar Ali told AFP.

“He was referred to by pupils as ‘The Protector’.”

Many the pupil casualties perished in a hostel for young men where the four attackers were cornered by security forces.

The bodies of militants, bloodied and with their clothing ripped, were dumped on the ground of a truck before being taken from the scene.

The assault brought back memories of the 2014 atrocity, in which gunmen from an identical Taliban faction slaughtered more than 150 people -run school in Peshawar that was nearby.

Many the casualties were kids, as well as a candlelight vigil was held by their relatives for those slain in the most recent strike late Wednesday in Peshawar.

The strike on the army school combined Pakistanis scarred with a decade in outrage and shock and prompted military and a government -led crack down on extremism.

Security enhanced in 2015, which found the least amount of departures from militant violence in 2007 because the creation of the Pakistani Taliban. But critics have warned the government isn’t taking long term measures to tackle the inherent issues of extremism.

“We will not be safe, even parents don’t feel safe,” he said.

The Bacha Khan strike, which Amnesty International said could be labeled a war crime, earned international condemnation, including from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and from neighbouring India.

“It’s especially appalling these terrorists continue to assault educational institutions, targeting Pakistan’s future generations,” said a US State Department spokesman.

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Militants launched a gun and bomb assault killing several in the middle of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday, police said, in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the united states in their “limelight”.Jakarta police spokesman Col. Muhammad Iqbal saidseven folks including four attackers were killed.

He explained authorities had recovered the bodies of the attackers, but it was unclear if more stay at large.

Media said six bombs went off and a Reuters witness saw a gunfight happening as well as three dead people.

The initial explosion seemingly activated a gunbattle involving the attackers and anti-terror police squads, and gunfire may be heard a half along with over an hour after.

A bank security guard, Tri Seranto, told The Associated Press at least five attackers were seen by him, including three suicide bombers who burst themselves.

He explained he saw them blowing themselves up one by one and was outside on the road when he saw the three guys. He explained from where he heard gunfire, the other two attackers, carrying pistols, entered a police place. He explained he later saw one officer dead and wounded.