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Dozens of Rohingya refugees are feared dead or missing after a boat survivors said held around 150 people capsized this week off the westernmost coast of Indonesia, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said Friday. “The fear is for…
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The UN refugee agency faces one of the most difficult moments in its more than 70-year history as record displacements coincide with funding shortfalls and a “short-sighted” focus on border controls, its chief said on Monday. Conflicts…
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Today the Member States of the EU met again in the framework of the Integrated Political Crisis Response (IPCR) arrangements, in the presence of representatives of Türkiye, to address the situation following the earthquake in Türkiye and…
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More than five million Ukrainians have now fled their country following the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Wednesday, in Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 5,034,439…
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The UN refugee agency said Wednesday more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its war in the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The new figure was posted on an UNHCR website. More than 2.3…
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Amid Russia’s ongoing offensive in Ukraine, the two countries agreed to establish 10 humanitarian corridors in the eastern European nation, for March 14, for the evacuation of citizens stranded in the regions of Kyiv Oblast and Luhansk…
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Amid the ongoing civil war in Yemen, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie recently visited the country in the Middle East to provide aid to the refugees there. Taking to Instagram, Jolie, who has spent almost two decades working with the United…
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The U.N. refugee agency says 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion less than a week ago, an exodus without precedent in this century for its speed. The tally from UNHCR amounts to more than 2% of Ukraine’s population…
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Somalia’s “rapidly worsening” drought has left more than two million people facing severe food and water shortages, the United Nations said, warning of a fourth consecutive season of poor rainfall in the conflict-wracked country. “About…
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