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UN agency for Palestinian refugees has urgent budget crisis
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UN agency for Palestinian refugees has urgent budget crisis

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees is facing an “existential” budget crisis and appealing for urgent…
Officials: Libyan forces round up 500 migrants in crackdown
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Officials: Libyan forces round up 500 migrants in crackdown

CAIRO (AP) — Libyan security forces on Friday detained at least 500 African migrants, including women and children, two officials…
Refugees in fear as sentiment turns against them in Turkey
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Refugees in fear as sentiment turns against them in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fatima Alzahra Shon thinks neighbors attacked her and her son in their Istanbul apartment building because…
Children dying every week in Syrian camps: report
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Children dying every week in Syrian camps: report

Children are dying every week in overcrowded camps in northeast Syria, NGO Save the Children said on Thursday. The charity said…
Mayorkas says images from US border ‘horrified’ him
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Mayorkas says images from US border ‘horrified’ him

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday images of what appeared to be Border Patrol agents on…
Two Afghans who trekked to France have lessons for evacuees
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Two Afghans who trekked to France have lessons for evacuees

PARIS (AP) — One slept on the streets of Paris, the other in a massive makeshift migrant camp in northern…
Syria violence worsening, not safe for refugee return, UN investigators say
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Syria violence worsening, not safe for refugee return, UN investigators say

GENEVA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began,…
Amnesty: Syria refugees suffered abuse, torture upon return
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Amnesty: Syria refugees suffered abuse, torture upon return

BEIRUT (AP) — A number of Syrian refugees who returned home have been subjected to detention, disappearance and torture at…
Rescue groups: US tally misses hundreds left in Afghanistan
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Rescue groups: US tally misses hundreds left in Afghanistan

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Veteran-led rescue groups say the Biden administration’s estimate that no more than 200 U.S. citizens were…
Qatar emerges as key player in Afghanistan after US pullout
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Qatar emerges as key player in Afghanistan after US pullout

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar played an outsized role in US efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of…
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