refugees

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The Continent should want to reopen the Gulf quickly and avoid another surge of refugees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Far fewer North Korean refugees make it to South Korea these days than did in the past.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

In 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees who were fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the MS St. Louis were turned away by Cuba and the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Burma has been in a brutal civil war, and for over seven decades, generations of refugees have been forced out, each fleeing their own harrowing chapter of persecution.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

The consul at the U.S. embassy had explained that the U.S. government allowed refugees to come to America if they were in danger in their own country.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai