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An Islamic State group suicide bomber killed at least 63 and wounded scores when he detonated in crowds at a Kabul wedding feast, in the most deadly attack in Afghanistan this year.

The scale of the carnage in a western Shia district of the Afghan capital was met with shock in a city frequently hit by suicide attacks. It underlined fears that a peace deal between America and the Taliban will not halt violence.

America called the bombing “an act of extreme depravity”, while the Taliban, who have themselves regularly killed civilians in indiscriminate bombings, said it was barbaric.

A bomber called Abu Assim al Pakistani blew himself up after infiltrating a gathering of “infidels”, according to the Afghan branch of the Islamic State group. Afghan Shia Muslims have repeatedly been hit by the group before.

The blast tore through crowds of well wishers and relatives, the groom told local television.  He had welcomed guests to the venue called the Dubai City wedding hall, only to see their bodies being carried back out hours later.

The attack "changed my happiness to sorrow", said the young man, who gave   his name as Mirwais.

"My family, my bride are in shock, they cannot even speak. My bride   keeps fainting," he said.   "I lost my brother, I lost my friends, I lost my relatives. I will   never see happiness in my life again.”

Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, condemned “the inhumane attack on the wedding hall in Kabul last night. My top priority for now is to reach out to the families of victims of this barbaric attack.”

He said the Taliban movement fighting his government “cannot absolve themselves of blame, for they provide platform for terrorists”.

The blast came as American and Taliban envoys continue to try to reach a deal which will see US troops withdraw and the Taliban give guarantees that Afghanistan will not become a haven for transnational terrorists such as al-Qaeda.

Saturday night’s blast underlined how difficult that may be, with the local branch of Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) still controlling a foothold in eastern Afghanistan.

Kabul’s gaudy wedding halls hold lavish celebrations as families save for years to show off their hospitality and largesse. Guest lists can often run to more than a thousand. The purpose-built venues also hold other gathering such as political rallies. Several have been bombed in recent years and they have come to be seen as a soft target.

Pictures of the aftermath of Saturday night’s blast showed bodies strewn among overturned chairs and tables. Witnesses said the bomb detonated near a stage holding musicians.  "The wedding guests were dancing and celebrating the party when the  blast happened," a 23-year-old guest called Munir Ahmad told AFP.

"Following the explosion, there was total chaos. Everyone was   screaming and crying for their loved ones.”

At least 185 were wounded in the blast, including many women and children.

Isil first emerged in Afghanistan in early 2015, as existing militants swarmed to the banner of extremists who had shocked the world by proclaiming a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

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The Afghan branch of the movement has endured even as the middle eastern caliphate has been swept away in the Middle East. It has built a stronghold in Nangarhar and parts of Kunar, attracting defections from existing extremist groups already present, including the Pakistan Taliban, and a scattering of foreign fighters.

An intense American special operations campaign has failed to dislodge Isil and Taliban attempts to purge the group from eastern Afghanistan have also failed.

A Ukrainian nuclear power plant worker will be forced pay for "stolen" electricity after he set up an illegal bitcoin mining operation at the station.  

The illicit operation came to light when the SBU, Ukraine’s internal security service, searched the facility last month and uncovered computer equipment set up to "mine" the cryptocurrency.

Mining cryptocurrencies is an expensive drain on power as it often requires vast computer servers to solve complex puzzles in exchange for virtual coins.

According to papers filed with the Central District Court in the city of Mykolaev security agents believe details of the 2,850 megawatt plant’s security arrangements – which are considered a state secret in Ukraine – could have been leaked when the computers were connected to the Internet. 

Ukrainian media suggested those facing charges could include members of the National Guard who were meant to be protecting the site.   

The power station, which runs three nuclear reactors, acknowledged that an illicit mining site had been found, but denied a security breach. 

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"A search was carried out which revealed that in one of the storage rooms, which is used for spare parts for auxiliary equipment, a power plant employee had placed his own computer equipment for cryptocurrency mining," the  station, which is run by EnergoAtom,  Ukraine’s nuclear monopoly, said in a statement. 

"The internal investigation revealed that the seized equipment had no physical connection to the plant’s local computer network, so reports in the media about a leak of information regarding the physical protection of the nuclear power plant are unfounded."

The would-be crypto millionaire did not escape without punishment however. 

Because his "private computer devices" consumed company electricity on work time, he was demoted and will be asked to pay back "the amount of material losses caused by electricity consumption for personal non-official needs."

Details of the court case may be released following the trial.

Last year Russian nuclear engineers were arrested after using a supercomputer at a sensitive nuclear site for Bitcoin mining. 

In February 2018 SBU officers confiscated a huge stash of computers being used to mine bitcoin at a semiconductor plant in Kiev. They said the proceeds were being used to fund Russian-backed separatists fighting in the east of the country. 

In 2017, kidnappers seized an employee of a UK-linked crypto-currency firm in Kiev and only released him when paid a ransom of $1 million worth of bitcoin. 

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Pro-democracy demonstrators planned on Sunday to choke travel routes to Hong Kong’s international airport after a chaotic night of running battles between police and masked protesters, the latest wave of unrest to hit the Chinese-ruled city.

Protest organisers have urged the public to overwhelm road and rail links to the airport on Sunday and Monday, potentially disrupting flights. A similar so-called "stress test" of the airport last weekend failed.

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On Saturday Hong Kong witnessed some of its most in intense clashes since anti-government protests began as a hardline faction of demonstrators took to the streets with petrol bombs in defiance of a strict ban.

Activists marched in the rain through several neighbourhoods, shouting “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” before lobbing Molotov cocktails and bricks at the city’s legislative building and police headquarters.

Police responded with sprays of tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons that gushed jets of water laced with blue dye to help identify – and potentially arrest – the black-clad, masked protesters cowering behind umbrellas.

A great outpouring of ambivalence greeted the death of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabweans struggled to make sense of the legacy of a man who fashioned their state and then did his best to destroy it.

With Zimbabwe mired once again in economic crisis, in part as a result of his disastrous financial policies, many seemed too exhausted to form a coherent opinion about the president who led them for 37 years.

In the bread and fuel queues of Harare, the capital, there was regret, sometimes even sadness that the old man was finally gone at the age of 95. Yet there was little evidence of spontaneous grief. 

The flags were not even flying at half-mast. Because of electricity rationing most could not even watch…

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Torrential rain in southeastern Spain has killed five people, amid extensive flooding as the region’s largest river burst its banks overnight on Thursday.

The death toll had risen to five by Friday evening, including a man who drowned after driving into a flooded tunnel in the coastal town of Níjar. According to reports, two cars entered the tunnel as traffic police were placing bollards to close the road, with officers able to rescue two out of the cars’ three occupants.

On Thursday a brother and sister, aged 61 and 51, died when the car they were travelling in was caught up in floodwaters in the town of Caudete.

After Thursday’s rainfall reached record levels in many locations in southeastern Spain, the Segura river burst its banks overnight in several places, including the large town of Orihuela near Alicante, a favourite of British tourists and pensioners.

Residents of the city of Murcia, where a September record of 169 litres of rain fell per square metre on Thursday, watched as the river reached the top of the banks and the level of road bridges.

Around 3,500 people have been evacuated from their homes and army units have been called in to help deal with the flooding and prevent further tragedies.

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“The situation is dramatic. We are not talking about a particular area, but the whole of Murcia,” the region’s president, Fernando López Miras, told the Cadena Ser radio station, adding that at least two towns, Torre Pacheco and San Javier in the Mar Menor resort area, were completely underwater.

Mr López Miras has called a special meeting of the regional government to have Murcia declared as an official disaster zone.

Heavy rainfall and flash floods continued to cause havoc in many areas of Spain on Friday morning. Emergency services managed to rescue four people from an inundated road tunnel on a main motorway between Alicante and Murcia, where rescue workers used an inflatable lifeboat and a jet ski to free motorists from the rising water.

 

 

Belgians have reacted with disbelief after an image of the Manneken Pis – the national symbol of a naked urinating boy – was censored on the box of the Brussels edition of Monopoly. 

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Instead the Manneken Pis’ modesty will be covered by swimming trunks picked out in the Belgian capital’s colours and Iris motif. 

Monopoly’s American owners were not willing to have a picture of the famous statue on the Brussels themed version of the board game. 

 "Not even when we said that Manneken Pis is world famous and cultural heritage," said Group 24, the company releasing the Belgian editions of the game.

Habro, the company which owns Monopoly, was set to launch the Brussels edition in Belgium next week, the Bruzz new website reported. Group 24 said the Americans pulled the plug when they saw the box’s original design. 

It is not the first time the Manneken Pis has found itself in the centre of controversy.

The landmark bronze statue, which stands 61 cm here, is often dressed up in costumes to mark special occasions, such as Christmas,  which are later stored in a nearby dedicated museum.

In June, the iconic sculpture was due to be dressed in a Michael Jackson outfit to mark the ten year anniversary of the star’s death. 

City authorities scrapped the plan after the documentary Leaving Neverland, which detailed accusations that Jackson was a paedophile, was aired. 

The Manneken Pis is celebrated in Brussels as a symbol of the city’s rebellious spirit, love of surrealism and love of self-mockery. 

The landmark sculpture, which pees into a fountain basin, was first erected in 1618 or 1619. It originally played an important role in the distribution of drinking water.

It is thought the Manneken is a reference to the tanning industry, where children would pee on leather hides to soften them.

Legends have sprung up around the boy and the reasons he was immortalised as a stature. They describe a lad putting out a dangerous fire or a dynamite fuse lit by an invading army by urinating on it.

The Manneken survived the bombardment of Brussels by the French in 1695 and repeated attempts to steal it. 

The current statue, just five minutes walk from the city’s iconic Grand Place, is a replica, with the original stored safely at the city hall. 

Unfortunately for the folks at WrestleCon, the cancellations continue to mount ahead of their big weekend in New York.
In addition to The Dragon Gate talent being pulled from the shows due to visa issues, WWE Hall Of Famer Sting has also been pulled from the show.
Apparently “The Icon’s” changing WWE schedule led to the issues.

“[For your information], the vendor bringing in Sting cancelled due to Sting’s changing WWE schedule,” wrote the WrestleCon promoters in an announcement released via their official Twitter page. “We are trying to find a way to take him over for Saturday. We appreciate your patience. In the meantime, MZ Promotions is issuing refunds to all preorders, Wolfe Studios is waiting as we resolve.”
You can check out the complete announcement below:

FYI, the vendor bringing in Sting cancelled due to Sting’s changing WWE schedule. We are trying to find a way to take him over for Saturday. We appreciate your patience. In the meantime, MZ Promotions is issuing refunds to all preorders, Wolfe Studios is waiting as we resolve.
— WrestleCon (@wrestlecon) March 28, 2019