U.N. Refugee Agency

• Nearly 120,000 people have fled Ukraine amid Russian invasion

  Nearly 120,000 people have so far fled Ukraine into Poland and other neighboring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion, the U.N. refugee agency said Saturday.

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  Feb 26, 2022
  
• Over one million refugees have fled South Sudan: UN

  More than one million refugees have fled South Sudan's ongoing civil war, overwhelming aid agencies and creating one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters.

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  Sep 16, 2016
  
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• Up to 3,000 Iraqi refugees captured by Islamic State: UN refugee agency

  The U.N. refugee agency says it has received reports that the Islamic State group may have captured up to 3,000 Iraqis who were fleeing violence and that 12 of them may have been killed.

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  Aug 5, 2016
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• Refugee sets herself alight at immigration camp on Nauru

  A Somali refugee was critically injured when she set herself on fire at an Australian immigration camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru.

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  May 2, 2016
• EU moves forward with plan to send thousands of migrants back to Turkey

  European Union leaders will push ahead Thursday with contested plans to send tens of thousands of migrants back to Turkey amid deep divisions over how to manage Europe's biggest refugee emergency in decades.

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  Mar 17, 2016
• Migrant arrivals by sea in Europe now top 1 million in 2015: UN refugee agency

  The U.N. refugee agency says that the number of migrants who've arrived in Europe by sea this year now tops 1 million.

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  Dec 30, 2015
• More than 4 million refugees have fled Syria since outbreak of civil war: UN

  The number of Syrians who have fled abroad since the outbreak of civil war in their country has risen to more than 4 million, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the United Nations said Thursday.

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  Jul 9, 2015