An Earthquake Killed Hundreds in Afghanistan...

Hundreds were killed in an earthquake in Afghanistan Rescue workers yesterday scrambled to reach isolated, mountainous areas in eastern Afghanistan after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake killed more than 800 people and injured 2,500 others there. Afghan officials warned that the death toll would probably rise. Recovery efforts were complicated by landslides that stranded villages, and only a handful of countries, including Iran, India, Japan and the E.U., offered relief assistance to the Taliban government. Most of the destruction took place in the province of Kunar, which borders Pakistan, but hospitals were operational, the acting head of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Afghanistan said. Here’s what else to know about the quake. Humanitarian crises: The quake struck Afghanistan as it grapples with overlapping crises. More than half of the country’s 42 million people are in need of aid, according to the U.N. Aid organizations are bracing for a painful winter amid dwindling funds and the return of more than two million Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran. Watch a video of the rescue efforts.