{"id":5658,"date":"2009-10-08T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2009-10-08T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:47:40","slug":"world-links-bombing-outside-indian-embassy-in-kabul-mend-vows-to-resume-attacks-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/wa-blog\/world-links-bombing-outside-indian-embassy-in-kabul-mend-vows-to-resume-attacks-in-nigeria\/5658\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: Bombing Outside Indian Embassy in Kabul, MEND Vows to Resume Attacks in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2009\/10\/2009108531259700.html\">explosion<\/a> outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 17 and wounds more than 60. The embassy has been attacked before &#8212; in July 2008, a suicide bomber killed 58 and wounded 141. American and Indian officials say that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/dawn-content-library\/dawn\/news\/world\/11-large-blast-heard-in-afghan-capital--il--01\">Pakistani intelligence agency<\/a> had a hand in the earlier attack.<\/p>\n<p>German writer Herta Mueller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,4774182,00.html\">wins the Nobel Prize for Literature<\/a>. Mueller, who was born in Romania, has written widely about oppression under Romania&#8217;s communist dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian militant group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/08\/AR2009100800657.html?wprss=rss_world\/wires\">MEND vows to resume attacks<\/a> after a 60-day ceasefire expires next week. MEND&#8217;s campaign of attacks on oil pipelines and kidnappings of oil company employees has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/12920\/mend.html\">cut oil production<\/a> in the Niger Delta by about a third.<\/p>\n<p>Iran blames the U.S. for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/07\/AR2009100700556.html\">disappearance<\/a> of an Iranian scientist reportedly involved in the country&#8217;s nuclear program. The scientist, Shahram Amiri, vanished during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 17 and wounds more than 60. The embassy has been attacked before &#8212; in July 2008, a suicide bomber killed 58 and wounded 141. American and Indian officials say that the Pakistani intelligence agency had a hand in the earlier attack. 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