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Rohingya refugees living in Hyderabad are a worried lot amid growing threat of deportation in the wake of passing of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill by the Parliament and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC). ...
Teams from the UN refugee agency have assisted some 31,800 people in northeast Syria since the start of a Turkish air campaign there last week, UNCHR global spokesperson Liz Throssell said on Tuesday. ...
A group of 98 vulnerable refugees was on Thursday airlifted from war-wracked Libya to Italy in the third direct humanitarian evacuation to the country this year, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said in a statement. ...
(/AKI) United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi on Friday called for new partners and "innovative tools" to aid 25 million people who have been forced to flee their homes in Africa. ...