Iraqi refugees spill into Jordan, driving up prices
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Each wave of refugees sends inflation soaring, affecting the real estate market most.
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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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The number of Iraqis seeking asylum in industrialized countries during the first half of 2007 more than doubled from the same period last year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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Only six months ago, many Iraqi travelers considered it a suicidal risk to take the insurgent-controlled desert highway that stretches from Baghdad to neighboring Syria and Jordan.
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Oil prices rose on Friday as a sabotage attack on Iraqi oil infrastructure reignited concern about the reliability of crude exports from the country despite a peace deal to end an uprising in Najaf.
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The price of Iraqi Kurdistan's economic growth is environmental damage.
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Soaring petroleum prices pushed the cost of goods imported into the U.S. much higher than expected in August, the government said today.
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Thousands of refugees stream from Chad into Cameroon following a rebel assault on the Chadian capital.
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Many Syrian-Americans are leaving for Damascus, lured by the opportunities offered by a newly open economy.
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Nearly 530 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States last month, a huge bump from July but still far short of the number needed to fulfill the Bush administration's pledge to accept 2,000 by the end of September.
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Nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland -- what one U.N. official calls a "simmering crisis." In Jordan, Iraq refugees make up more than one-tenth of the population. In the last year, Dr. Nafie Abtan has gone from prominent doctor to refugee. "I feel disaster," he says.
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AMMAN, Jordan (RNS)--Iraqi Christians flocked to the Latin Catholic church in the Hashmi district of the Jordanian capital, a drab working-class area, where they celebrated Mass in the ancient Chaldean language.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives -- and why the U.S. should let more in
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The U.N. refugee agency is more than doubling its annual appeal for funds to help Iraqis fleeing their homes to $123 million from $60 million, a spokesman said Thursday.
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In a Feb. 14 story about Jordan imposing visa restrictions on Iraqi refugees, The Associated Press erroneously quoted U.N High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres as calling on countries hosting Iraqi refugees to increase the opportunities for refugees to settle there and saying 70,000 Iraqi refugees want to resettle.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy