refugees
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In 2025 alone, Iran and Pakistan combined have returned more than a million Afghan immigrants and refugees to their country of origin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lengthy negotiations secured the bird's release, but not before refugees carried Feliks in a potato sack over the Nahr al-Kabir river on the northern border between Syria and Lebanon, the Associated Press reported.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The most common nationality of refugees in a new social letting was Afghanistan with the second most common being Ukraine.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
I’m the child of Vietnamese refugees, and when they claimed asylum in Los Angeles, we were plonked into the cultural collision that was Spanish-speaking Pacoima.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
When Grossman tried to interview the refugees, they would begin to cry when he asked them a question.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
