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Antonio Guterres and Asylum Claims

asylum claims: Worldwide, 866,000 new asylum claims were lodged last year a 45 per cent increase from 2013, the highest level since 1992 at the beginning of the Balkan conflicts, said the United Nations report to be released in Geneva Thursday, according to Metro News. In the 1990s, the Balkan wars created hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers. Many of them found refuge in industrialized countries. Today, the surge in armed conflicts around the world presents us with similar challenges, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and Canada has remained at the bottom of the world top-15 refugee receiving countries, according to the annual asylum trends report. Syrians were by far the largest group among those seeking asylum in 2014, with 150,000 claims, or one-fifth of the total. Iraqis came second, accounting for 68,700 applications, double the number in 2013. Both countries are at war with Islamic State group extremists. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.