Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a news conference in Kabul on January 25, 2014.

13 dead as Afghan car bomb explodes during construction

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PULI ALAM -- At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed in an explosion on Sunday as Taliban militants prepared a car bomb in southern Afghanistan, officials said.The explosives detonated prematurely as they were being placed in a car in a house in Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, deputy provincial police chief Abdul Wali...