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Report: More Than 10 Million People Displaced in First Half of 2016

More than 10 million people have been displaced across the globe in the first half of 2016, with Syria, Yemen and Turkey topping the list, according to estimates compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC). From January to August, the IDMC report said armed conflict displaced 900,000 people in Syria, 478,000 in Yemen and another 355,000 in Turkey. Millions more have fled because of sudden disasters: flooding displaced two million people in China and...

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