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CARE projects in Kabul and Wardak have resumed operation following a six-week suspension. In Kabul the Widows Emergency Feeding Project and the Water and Sanitation Project had been suspended when regulations issued by Afghanistan's religious police made it impossible for…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS In a report released on Thursday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that the de facto division of Afghanistan largely along ethnic lines is a troubling aspect of the situation in that country. According to the report, the military confrontation between…

S/1997/719 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SECURITY COUNCIL Fifty-second session Fifty-second year Agenda item 43 THE SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY Report of the Secretary-General I. INTRODUCTION 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 19 of General…

(9:59pm AEST) Afghanistan's Taiban militia claims that Saudi Arabia has pledged to provide assistance to areas under its control. A Taliban official said that during a visit this month to meet King Fahd, a top militia delegation solicited political and…

DATE=9/17/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-220028 TITLE=AFGHAN FIGHTING (S ONLY) BYLINE=MEREDITH BUEL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE TALEBAN SAY THEY HAVE CAPTURED A TOWN IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN ALONG THE BORDER WITH UZBEKISTAN. AS VOA CORRESPONDENT MEREDITH BUEL REPORTS -- IT APPEARS THE TALEBAN ARE TRYING TO SURROUND…

4:55 PM EDT By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One in seven North Koreans has starved to death in some northern areas and the death rate from famine may be even higher in the south of the country, the U.S.…

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuter) - North Korea experts cast doubt on Tuesday on an estimate from an international charity that between 500,000 and 2 million people have died in a famine in the reclusive Stalinist nation. While the experts agreed…

Afghanistan's Taliban militia has accused Russia of supplying long-range rockets to opposition forces attempting to capture the capital, Kabul. A Taliban statement said an aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited former Afghan…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS United Nations agencies are being compelled to temporarily withdraw aid workers from Mazar-I-Sharif because their offices have been so severely looted that they can no longer function, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan. "The…

A Christian relief group says more than a million people may already have been killed by a famine in North Korea. The vice president of World Vision, Andrew Natsios, says North Koreans are …