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New UN report shows wars in Syria and Iraq drive highest asylum numbers in 22 years

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Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey...

Amid growing crises, UN officials urge protection for war’s youngest victims

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Children in South Sudan.

Students and teachers mourned after plane crashes in French Alps

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Plane Plummetted into remote area of the French Alps en route from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany

Terror attacks targeted Tunisia's democratic path: MEPs call for more EU support

The 18 March terrorist attacks on the Tunis Bardo museum were clearly directed against Tunisia’s transition to democracy, as the “lone success story of the ‘Arab Spring’”, said MEPs in a debate with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on...