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An Afghan girl holds onto huge cooking pots made of mud on a roadside in Kabul.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
An Afghan girl holds onto huge cooking pots made of mud on a roadside in Kabul.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
