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In Brief: UNHCR starts Afghan winter aid programme
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has begun a winter aid programme in Afghanistan for 200,000 most vulnerable people, mainly internally displaced persons and returnees from Iran and Pakistan.
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