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• WHO hopes for air bridge into northern Afghanistan in days Up to half a million Afghans could flee their homeland by year-end, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said yesterday, appealing to all neighbouring countries to keep their borders open for those seeking safety. As a crisis unfolds in the country, a few thousand Afghans have been recorded as entering Iran daily, while traders continue going back and forth from Afghanistan to Pakistan, said Kelly Clements, deputy UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “In terms of numbers we are preparing for around 500,000 new refugees in the region. This is a worst case scenario,” she told a Geneva news briefing. “While we have not seen large outflows of A

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