A Taliban suicide bomber attacked Afghanistan’s Information Ministry building in Kabul, killing five people and wounding more than 20. Ayaz Gul reports for VOA from Islamabad.
Witnesses are reported as saying that at least three militants stormed the ministry building in the center of the Afghan capital. One of them, they say, blew himself up while his companions opened fire on security guards before entering the building.

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Eleven bomb blasts in quick succession ripped through Guwahati and three other towns in Assam, killing at least 68 people and wounding 335, police said.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts, which security analysts said appeared to be coordinated.
Assam has been a focus of a separatist insurgency for decades, but it has also recently suffered bomb attacks blamed on Islamist militants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
Many of Thursday’s blasts were in crowded markets in the state and many bombs were hidden in motorcycles …