AN explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a US Marine and an Afghan soldier, Britain’s military said yesterday.

THE Taliban claimed responsibility yesterday for bombings that killed 14 people, including eight Americans and an Afghan in a suicide attack in the volatile east, and five Canadians in the south. CIA employees were believed to be among the victims.

The Taliban today admitted they were behind two separate bombings in Afghanistan that killed 13 Westerners.

A suicide bomber at a base in Afghanistan’s volatile east killed eight American civilians, US officials said, the worst loss of life for Americans in the country since October.