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Tuesday 2 July 2019
Taliban bombing in Afghan capital kills 6, wounds scores

By AMIR SHAH of them later released.
KATHY GANNON The insurgents struck during
Associated Press the morning commute, and
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ambulance sirens wailed
— The Taliban set off a across the downtown area.
powerful bomb in down- Mohammad Karim, a po-
town Kabul on Monday, lice official in the area
killing at least six people of the attack, said a car
and wounding more than bomb exploded outside
a hundred, and sending a a Defense Ministry build-
cloud of smoke billowing ing. Militants then ran into
over the Afghan capital. a nearby high-rise located
At least 26 children were in a crowded market and
among the wounded, began firing down on the
many of whom were cut ministry. Police and spe-
by shards of glass when cial Afghan security forces
the bomb shattered near- poured into the area and
by windows, government cordoned it off.
spokesman Feroz Bashari Mohammad Farooq, the
said. He said a total of 105 owner of a nearby restau-
people were hurt. rant, said the explosion
An education ministry blew out the windows of a
spokeswoman, Nooria Na- Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 1, private school, wounding
zhat, later raised the num- 2019. several students. The capi-
ber of students who were Associated Press tal has been relatively quiet
slightly wounded to 51, in recent months follow-
from two schools. office. two passers-by were killed Hospital in Kabul — one ing a spate of bombings,
The Taliban claimed the at- The attack ended nearly in the attack that began of the largest hospitals in many claimed by the local
tack, which came as the in- 10 hours after it began with with a powerful car bomb, the Afghan capital treat- Islamic State affiliate. The
surgents were holding their all five attackers dead, ac- followed by a series of ing war victims — said in Taliban have carried out
latest round of talks with cording to Interior Ministry smaller explosions and a a statement that it had re- scores of attacks in Kabul in
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad spokesman Nasrat Rahimi. day-long gun battle, said ceived two bodies, includ- recent years, mostly target-
in the Gulf state of Qatar, Two police, a child, a pri- Rahimi. ing a child. Dozens more ing Afghan and U.S. military
where they have a political vate security guard and The Italian-run Emergency injured were treated, many installations or convoys.q

Iran breaches uranium stockpile limit set by nuclear deal

By JON GAMBRELL board of governors that it
AMIR VAHDAT had verified the develop-
Associated Press ment.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran Breaking the stockpile limit
acknowledged Monday it by itself doesn't radically
had broken the limit set on change the one year ex-
its stockpile of low-enriched perts say Iran would need
uranium by the 2015 nucle- to have enough material
ar deal, marking its first ma- for an atomic bomb, if to
jor departure from the un- choose to pursue one. Iran
raveling agreement a year long has insisted its nuclear
after the U.S. unilaterally program is for peaceful
withdrew from the accord. purposes, despite Western
Iran had been expected fears about it.
for days to acknowledge it But by coupling an increas-
broke the limit after earlier ing stockpile with higher en-
warning it would do so. It richment, it begins to close
held off on publicly making that one-year window and
an announcement as Eu- hamper any diplomatic ef-
ropean leaders met Friday forts at saving the accord.
in Vienna to discuss ways Under terms of the nuclear
to save the accord. Iran This Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, shows a part of Arak heavy water nuclear facilities, near the central deal, Iran agreed to have
has threatened to increase city of Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. less than 300 kilograms
its enrichment of uranium Associated Press (661 pounds) of uranium
closer to weapons-grade enriched to a maximum
levels by July 7. and Iranian-backed rebels reported that Zarif, answer- low-enriched uranium had of 3.67%. Previously, Iran
The announcement comes in Yemen launching bomb- ing a reporter's question on hand, IRNA said. enriched as high as 20%,
as tensions remain high be- laden drones into Saudi whether Iran had broken The United Nations' nuclear which is a short technical
tween Iran and the U.S. In Arabia. the limit, said: "Yes." watchdog, the Internation- step away from reaching
recent weeks, the wider The state-run IRNA news "If Europeans do what they al Atomic Energy Agency, weapons-grade levels. It
Persian Gulf has seen Iran agency quoted Foreign have to do, our measures confirmed Iran had bro- also held up to 10,000 ki-
shoot down a U.S. military Minister Mohammad Ja- are reversible," Zarif said, ken through the limit. IAEA lograms (22,046 pounds)
surveillance drone, myste- vad Zarif as making the ura- according to IRNA. Director General Yukiya of the higher-enriched
rious attacks on oil tankers nium announcement. IRNA Zarif did not say how much Amano told the agency's uranium.q