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US slashes work permit validity time for refugees, asylum seekers • Dec. 5, 2025, 8:06 AM ET (Straits Times)

Trump administration plan to review Biden-era refugees sparks worry and uncertainty • Nov. 25, 2025, 8:41 PM ET (AP)

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refugees in Slovenia

refugee camp in Kyrgyzstan

refugees at a “tent school” in Somalia

Ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan

Darfur conflict

Witness civil warfare in the Balkan region catalyzed by the fall of communism in Yugoslavia

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Sir John Hope Simpson

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