UN Refugee Agency

• UN preparing for 120K refugees in Armenia after Nagorno-Karabakh takeover

  Over 88,000 people have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh and the total could reach 120,000, said a U.N. refugee agency official on Friday.

  World

  Sep 29, 2023
  
• Alphonso Davies named most influential Canadian sport star in new study

  Edmonton soccer darling Alphonso Davies has been crowned the most influential Canadian sport star, and a marketing expert says that's good news for the city too.

  Sports

  Sep 12, 2023
  
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• Russian attacks on Mariupol mirror Nazi war crimes, Polish president says

  The president of Poland compared Russia's attacks on Ukraine to Nazi forces during World War II, saying Tuesday that besieged Mariupol looks like Warsaw in 1944.

  World

  Mar 22, 2022
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• ‘Putin is coming’: A family’s escape from Ukraine

  Natalia and Oleksiy Bihlenko, driving instructors from Kherson, never thought war would come to their city. Now she and her two children are refugees in Poland.

  World

  Mar 3, 2022
• Over 1 million Ukrainians have fled Russian invasion, UN says

  The tally from the U.N. refugee agency amounts to more than 2 percent of Ukraine’s population being forced out of the country in less than a week.

  World

  Mar 2, 2022
• The number of people displaced worldwide is at an all-time high. Can Canada do more?

  Only half a percent of refugees worldwide were able to resettle in new homes in 2019.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2020
• Israel to send 16,000 African migrants to Western countries, including Canada

  Israel said it has canceled a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the UN refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries instead.

  World

  Apr 2, 2018
• Ukraine orders civilian corridor in east

  Ukraine's new president has ordered security officials to create a corridor for safe passage for civilians in the country's east.

  World

  Jun 10, 2014