Flow of Refugees Slows; Most Head for France
From Times Wire Reports
France supplanted the United States as the top destination for people seeking asylum in industrialized nations last year, while the flow of refugees dropped to levels unseen since the late 1980s, a U.N. report said.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, based in Geneva, attributed the decline in asylum applications filed in North America and Europe to a drying up of the flow of refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo.
But applications in France rose 3% to 61,600.
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