<div>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14.95px;">In Afghanistan, a suicide bomber targeted students preparing for university exams in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul today, killing at least 48 people and wounding 67.   </p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14.95px;">The bomber detonated his explosives inside a private building in the Dasht-i Barcha area of Kabul where a group of young Shiite men and women, all high school graduates, were studying for university entrance exams.    </p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14.95px;">The spokesman for the public health ministry, Wahid Majroh, said the casualty figures were not final and that the death toll – which steadily rose in the immediate aftermath of the bombing – could rise further.</p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14.95px;">No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but Jawad Ghawari, a member of the city's Shiite clerical council, blamed Islamic State group, which has carried similar attacks in the past. Taliban has denied its involvement in the attack</p></div>