Amid all these reports, though, Iraqi officials are telling returning refugees, not so fast.
The UN's emergency response plan for Syrian refugees, Oxfam said, currently lacked 75% of the funding required.
Postcards from successful refugees in Los Angeles, Sydney, Canada and New Zealand are a display of resilience.
There are 220, 000 refugees from Darfur living in camps in Chad, and more than 110, 000 internally displaced people.
All the while, he and other refugees longed to return home to Rwanda.
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However, the number of North Korean refugees arriving in South Korea dropped by 40% last year.
Going way back, Intel was founded by refugees from Fairchild Semiconductor, who earlier left Shockley Semiconductor.
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The people here are about to become some of the first refugees of climate change.
An outbreak of polio this year among Angola's internal refugees has affected at least 1, 000 people.
And many of them came over to the United States as an asylum for political refugees.
You know, a fourth of the population is actually consistent of refugees from Syria.
UN, and even private companies or rich individuals will be asked to help refugees.
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As the Rwandan army advanced across Congo in 1997, it drove the surviving refugees before it.
Families exchange visits, and there is reputed to be a growing underground population of refugees.
Mr. Sharif's family were refugees from what is now India, just a few miles away.
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"We have shifted our thinking from taking care of refugees to their return, " she says.
The majority of the refugees, including Naw Lawnadoo, belong to the Karen ethnic group.
In all, the Syrian conflict has generated an extra half million refugees in just two months.
The United Nations says many refugees are malnourished and some are dying of hunger.
Several Kurdish refugees in Harrisonburg have been convicted of violating the act for sending money overseas.
To guard against future floods, the government is trying to resettle refugees on higher ground.
Far from Sarajevo, refugees continued to flee fighting on the ground in Western Bosnia.
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In Amman, Jordan, Ibrahim Taya is the youngest of 12 born to Palestinian refugees.
In one incident, 44 Tamil refugees were killed when shells hit a 400-year-old Catholic Church.
But then, in a blow to waiting refugees, administration officials scale the number back to 7, 000.
The number of refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict overall recently reached a million, the UN said.
And tonight, Lebanese security forces say Israeli aircraft attacked a large convoy of refugees fleeing north.
At present, most refugees are dispersed throughout the country and only a minority are detained.
High Commissioner for Refugees proclaimed an alert this week about threats against human rights workers.
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