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Kabul bomb targets foreign contractors, kills mostly Afghans

A car bomb targeting a convoy carrying civilian NATO contractors killed 12 people outside a Kabul hospital on Saturday, part of a wave of attacks in the capital since news broke last month of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. “Twelve dead bodies and 66 wounded people were taken to several Kabul hospitals,” health official Kabir Amiry said. “Some were in a bad condition.” In a statement the Taliban denied it was behind the attack.

Parents of Sandy Hook massacre victims say they get scant help from state

By Richard Weizel NEWTOWN Connecticut (Reuters) – Parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut said on Friday that state officials had failed to provide them adequate mental health care in the wake of one of America's worst mass shootings. “We didn’t even know we had been assigned a case worker the day of the shootings until a few days ago,” said Jeremy Richman, the father of a six-year-old girl killed in the attack. The girl's mother, Jennifer Hansel, said “to this day” it is unclear how and where to get counseling. …