Antonio Guterres News
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Syria’s two-year civil war has made 5 million people into refugees or aid recipients and left virtually no safe areas for civilians, the United Nations said.
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Turkish police detained at least five suspects over last month’s car-bomb attack on the Syrian border, including four Syrians with ties to the country’s security forces, Interior Minister Muammer Guler said.
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The United Nations demanded that armed Syrian rebels immediately release 21 UN Filipino peacekeepers who were seized near a post in the Golan Heights.
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The U.K. announced new types of aid for Syria’s opposition, including armored vehicles and body armor, as the number of refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria for neighboring countries reached 1 million.
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Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war for Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and other countries reached 1 million, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.
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The United Nations urged Sudan and South Sudan’s governments to cooperate to determine the fate of 700,000 southerners living in Sudan who remain undocumented.
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The U.S. is leaving France to battle militant Islamists in Mali, providing “limited” military support even as officials warn that al-Qaeda advances there endanger American interests.
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The United Nations refugee agency hasn’t done enough to meet the needs of Somalis that have fled famine because of the region’s worst drought in 60 years, its chief, Antonio Guterres, said.
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The United Nations is unable to deal with the number of refugees fleeing to Ethiopia from Somalia because of conflict and drought, the High Commissioner for Refugees said.
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As many as 1 million people have fled violence in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, Abidjan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said, as France’s ambassador to the UN warned the West African nation was “very close to civil war.”
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