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As new quake rocks Afghan villages, UN sends team to assess damage

A team of United Nations experts rushed to remote villages in Afghanistan, where an earthquake today killed over two dozen people and injured scores of others.

Afghanistan: UN studies long-term needs of earthquake-ravaged areas

With most emergency goods already distributed in earthquake-ravaged parts of Afghanistan, the United Nations is turning its attention to longer-term needs there, a UN spokesman told the press in Kabul today.