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Number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon passes 1 million, U.N. says

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The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has passed 1 million, the United Nations’ refugee agency said Thursday, making up almost a quarter of the country’s resident population.

Their numbers have made Lebanon the country with the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world, the agency said.

The total number of registered Syrian refugees in all countries is 2.58 million, according to the United Nations. Other nations with large populations of Syrian refugees include Jordan and Turkey.

The number in Lebanon has now risen into seven figures, from just 18,000 two years ago.

The United Nations has said that more than 100,000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in Syria since a popular uprising spiraled into a civil war in 2011.

U.N. staff in Lebanon register 2,500 new Syrian refugees every day, the UNHCR said.

 

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Germany to Take in 5,000 More Syrian Refugees

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Germany says it will take in a further 5,000 refugees from Syria, doubling its current offer of shelter for people fleeing the Arab nation’s civil war.

The decision was announced Friday at a meeting of officials from Germany’s 16 states, which share responsibility for housing refugees.

Lower Saxony’s interior minister, Boris Pistorius, said Germany couldn’t look away from the humanitarian disaster in Syria.

Millions of Syrians have fled their homes, with hundreds of thousands seeking refuge in neighboring countries.

Pistorius says a Europe-wide solution is needed to ensure that each country takes in as many refugees as it reasonably can.

Germany has offered shelter to the largest number of Syrians so far.