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Nepali guard killed in Taliban attack in Kabul

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KABUL, May 25: A Nepalese guard and an Afghan police officer providing security to the international aid group’s compound died in the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taliban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber on Friday.

The attack, the second in the city this week, also left four International Organization for Migration workers wounded, including an Italian woman badly burned by a grenade. Thirteen police were wounded while all six attackers died in the assault, authorities said. [More]

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Age plays a big role in one’s life, as people slow down as the years pass by. But for Yuichiro Miura, age is no bar to move up, that too on top of the highest point on earth.

At 80, the Japanese climber on Thursday became the oldest man on earth to step on top of Everest. Miura, along with his 43-year-old son, two other Japanese, and six Sherpas, reached the summit from the southeast ridge.

 
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