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NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the Taleban militia, which now controls about two-thirds of Afghanistan, today criticized the decision by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to suspend relief operations in Kabul. U-N-H-C-R said several members of its local staff have been arrested and Afghan women employees have been told to stay at home since the Taleban captured Kabul nearly two months ago.

Robert talks with Steve Boggan, a reporter for the Independent newspaper in London. They discuss the evidence uncovered by the British media that indicates at least one British company has violated the United Nations' arms export ban on sending arms to Rwanda. Documents found at the now-deserted Mugunga refugee camp in eastern Zaire indicated that the Mil-Tec Corportation supplied arms, via Albania and Israel, to the Rwandan Defence Ministry while the nation was under Hutu control.

Researchers have detected a virus believed to cause Kaposi's sarcoma in the saliva of gay men. Kaposi's sarcoma is a form of cancer that usually only occurs in people with weakened immune systems, such as people with AIDS. Recently, researchers have found evidence that the cancer is caused by a type of herpes virus. In the new research, scientists detected the virus in the saliva of six of seven HIV-positive gay men with a current or previous history of Kaposi's sarcoma. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

Founded five years ago, "The Company of Women," an all-female theatre company, devotes itself to the work of a dead white male...Shakespeare. It was founded by a noted voice coach and a noted psychologist who intend for it to do more than just perform Shakespeare. They want to use theatre - and the workshops they stage wherever they perform - to encourage women to speak up and make their voices heard. Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR in Amherst, reports.

Carolyn Jack reports from Toronto on the growing demands for the resignation of Canada's top military officer. General Jean Boyle has come under fire in the course of an official inquiry into the killings of Somali civilians by Canadian peacekeepers. The inquiry has uncovered allegations of a coverup of the military's handling of the 1993 torture and murder of a Somali teenager. The calls for Boyle's removal escalated when he defended himself by questioning his staff's integrity and moral fiber.

The biggest attraction in Tokyo today is a mall -- in Shinjuku, arguably the most over-built, over-commercialized, overrun-with-stores area on the planet, Hong Kong notwithstanding. More than two-point-five million people have streamed thru the complex since it opened. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the success of the mall, why the shoppers keep pouring into the stores, and the changes in the Japanese national character that have been wrought by that country's economic prosperity.

Many voters in Western states are frustrated with the news media's practice of reporting election numbers while the election is still underway. In Tuesday's election, media outlets declared that President Clinton was the winner of the Presidential race, even though polls were still open in Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska and Hawaii. Commentator Alan Siporin says that the current method of voting should be replaced by mail-in ballots which can all be opened and counted on election day.

Bob Dole is just back from a visit to northern California, where he campaigned for himself and for a Republican congressional candidate. Most House and Senate candidates want the top of the ticket to appear in the district to take advantage of the presidential candidate's coattails. But in the California case and others, the local congressional hopeful may be more popular, and Dole may not have much to offer in the way of assistance. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NPR's David Welna reports that President Clinton's controversial twenty-billion-dollar bailout of Mexico is succeeding. The 1995 package helped Mexico hold to a free market strategy, and now unemployment and inflation are going down, and the economy is showing signs of a comeback. Mr. Clinton has not made the bailout's success an issue in the campaign, however... his aides fear any mention of Mexico will remind voters about drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

NPR's David Welna reports how the Mexican ruling party shut down an official investigation of one of the country's most corrupt agencies--the commission which buys and distributes subsidized food. The ruling party apparently got nervous when the probe uncovered evidence that President Ernesto Zedillo approved a legally questionable payment when he served in the cabinet several years ago. Critics say the handling of the investigation proves that the ruling P-R-I party is not serious about fighting Mexico's rampant corruption.