Asylum seekers file most claims in decade, UNHCR says

GENEVA: Nearly half a million people sought asylum in the developed world last year, a 10-year high, with the sharpest rise in requests from Syrians fleeing war and persecution, the United Nations said on Thursday.In all, 479,300 asylum applications were lodged in 44 industrialised countries, a rise of 8 percent on the previous year, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its annual report, entitled Asylum Trends 2012. "This is the highest annual total since 2003, continuing a tre... more

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