refugee

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Between 2011 and 2021, nearly 31,000 Syrians were granted asylum in Britain after the civil war there sparked a refugee crisis, according to government statistics.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

At least 41,696 arrived in Greece by sea in 2025, according to the UN's refugee agency UNHCR.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

The tapes were edited to wrongly imply he strongly supported mass refugee settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

But it could be doing more to help the deportees gain refugee protection, speeding up the current process, which takes months, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Yet as I looked at the photos of Mo helping out at the refugee camps, rebuilding bombed-out villages, and replanting farms, I couldn't help but think of how that birthplace had suffered over the centuries.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda