31.   Five drug traffickers, four of them Afghan nationals, have been hanged in public in northeastern Iran, newspapers reported Wednesday.

32.   The three new detainees come from Mazar-i-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan, but are not Afghan nationals.

33.   The UNICEF office in Afghanistan said that it had cancelled no contracts for women, including Afghan nationals.

34.   The United Nations refugee agency has temporarily halted processing all asylum claims by Afghan nationals after the collapse of the Taliban regime, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

35.   Three Pakistani and two Afghan nationals were beheaded in the Saudi capital on Friday for smuggling heroin, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.

36.   Karzai offered former Afghan nationals willing to return home the benhington earlier Sunday, one day ahead of crucial talks at the White House with President George W. Bush.