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A UN envoy has met Afghanistan’s new interior minister who was for years was one of the world’s most wanted militants and is now part of a government trying to head off a humanitarian crisis. The meeting between Deborah Lyons, head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, and Sirajuddin Haqqani focused on humanitarian assistance, Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said in …

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