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Angelina Jolie works as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and is currently visiting Lviv in western Ukraine

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, going to the station to meet people displaced by the war with Russia before later leaving after air-raid sirens sounded.

"We are seeing the increases soar," UNHCR said. "It’s alarming."

At least 3,077 people died in the Mediterranean and Atlantic while trying to reach Europe last year – double the toll from 2020 – according to United Nations figures published on Friday.

More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, a UN refugee agency report showed on Friday, reporting the highest toll in recent years. Thousands of Africans take long, perilous journeys to Europe each…

Global refugee agency warns of ‘alarming’ rise in losses as figure for last year nearly doubles from 2020.

More than 5.3 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia invaded two months ago, the United Nations said Wednesday, with more than 52,000 joining their ranks in the past 24 hours. In total, 5,317,219 people have fled Ukraine as refugees since February 24, according to the latest data from…

More than eight million Ukrainians are expected to flee the war-torn country this year, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR).

Crowd cheers as crane removes monument from centre of Kyiv

A retired NATO commander says Russia's precision strikes against rail targets far away from its focus in eastern Ukraine do have strategic aims but are also a message to civilians trying to reach safety.

Up to 550 Ethiopian peacekeepers working in Sudan have sought asylum rather than return home for fear they will be persecuted due to their Tigrayan ethnicity, an official with direct knowledge of the plan said on Tuesday.