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New US Strategy in Afghanistan?

14/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, New US Strategy in Afghanistan?

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The impact of the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US becomes clear, Besieged Syrian towns are evacuated, Are robots programmed to be racist?

Afghan defence officials say thirty six Islamic State militants were killed in a strike by US forces, Up to thirty thousand people are being evacuated from towns in war-torn Syria, China warns of rising tensions between the US and North Korea, Scientists in Myanmar find undiscovered wildlife.


(Photo: An Afghan security member points to where the US GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb was dropped. Credit: EPA.)

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