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By Emma Farge and Michelle Nichols GENEVA/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donors have pledged more than a billion dollars to help Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled since the Islamist Taliban took power, and foreign aid has dried up, raising the spectre of a mass exodus. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was impossible to say how much of the money had been promised in response to an emergency U.N. appeal for $606 million to meet the most pressing needs of a country in crisis. After decades of war and suffering, Afghans are facing “perhaps their most perilous hour”, he said …