U.S. Program Accepted 1,324 Iraqi Refugees in Past Four Months
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Bush administration officials said yesterday that 1,324 Iraqi refugees entered the United States from October through January, as part of a U.S. program aimed at bringing in 12,000 by Sept. 30.
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The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the country over the next year, compared with 463 allowed in since the war began.
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The United States took in 375 Iraqi refugees last month, the State Department said on Monday, a small gain over previous months but still below the pace needed to reach its own target of 12,000 for the year.
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The United States will accelerate the resettlement of about 7,000 Iraqis referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and will contribute $18 million to the agency's appeal for Iraq, about one-third of the total, Undersecretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky said Wednesday.
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In the first 10 months of the year, 2,240 Americans exercised their right to automatic Israeli citizenship, compared with 2,385 for the whole of 2003, the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental organization, said.
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A 15-year-old Iraqi girl who claimed persecution in Baghdad because her family cooperated with the U.S. military has been granted political asylum here.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States will soon begin admitting a bigger trickle of the more than 2 million refugees who have fled Iraq, acknowledging for the first time the country may never be safe for some who have helped the United States there.
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The US House of Representatives has given the government the green light to spend 20 million dollars to provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans inside and outside the country, and moved to make refugees from the country eligible for asylum in the United States.
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Nine hundred reservists are to be drafted in to serve in Iraq, the defence minister Ivor Caplin announced yesterday. It will increase the total number of part-time servicemen and women in Iraq from 750 to 1,000 by next May.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said some 150,000 of the estimated 250,000 Iraqis living in Britain would be eligible to vote under a scheme that is also organized for Iraqi expatriates in 13 ...
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The United States aims to accept about 7,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of the year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday as the State Department sought to blunt criticism that it took in only 202 last year.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Substantial help finally  began reaching refugees in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province  Saturday, and the U.S. military arrived in force to speed the  flow of critically needed aid.
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Unrelenting violence and insecurity in Iraq could cause as many as 1 million Iraqis to flee their homes this year, the world's migration body said Friday.
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About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year as measures to speed up the process begin to take effect, government officials said yesterday.
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The United Nations launched a massive voluntary repatriation program Friday to return an estimated 340,000 Liberian refugees still scattered across West Africa after a long, brutal war that ended last year.
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The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday he is sending a representative to Baghdad to help millions of displaced Iraqis return home, showing a strengthened U.N. commitment to deal with the crisis and confidence in recent security gains.
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The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday. "We have a responsibility to respond to the immediate needs of Iraqis who have fled violence and persecution," said U.S. Undersecretary Paula Dobriansky. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees estimates up to 2 million Iraqis have fled since the war began.