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Record high for refugee numbers

Friday, June 24th, 2016

The UN says 65.3 million people were displaced last year by conflict and persecution, a new high. One person in 113 was displaced from her home in 2015 by conflict and persecution and is now an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee, the UN refugee agency says Monday in a new report. In all, the Read more