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Luxembourg takes over Council presidency: Luxembourg MEPs share their expectations

Starting Wednesday, the rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the EU will be in the hands of one of the smallest, yet most experience member states. Luxembourg will have to deal with many pressing issues, including the Greek debt crisis, an...

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Thousands of refugees continue to flee Burundi - UNHCR

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Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, wait on the shore of Lake Tanganyika to be transferred by boat to Kigoma and...

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UNHCR's new biometrics system helps verify 110,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand.

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In Thailand's Tham Hin camp, a UNHCR staff member captures the iris scan of a refugee from Myanmar for the new biometrics...

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Numbers of internally displaced in Libya double since September - UNHCR

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Children play in an alley at a refugee camp near the Libyan capital Tripoli that now hosts internally displaced people from the...

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