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Aid agency: thousands killed in Afghanistan
Afghan government pleads for more help amid Taliban advance and humanitarian crisis
Humanitarian agencies say the fighting in Afghanistan is taking a terrible toll on civilians, with thousands killed or wounded as the Taliban advance. We’ll hear from the Norwegian Refugee Council in Kabul.
Also in the programme: WHO warns of deadly Marburg virus in West Africa; and how Artificial Intelligence could diagnose dementia in a day.
(Photo: An internally displaced Afghan child from northern provinces. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer)
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