Syria Refugees In Lebanon

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  4 Syrians Found Frozen To Death In Eastern Lebanon

  Four Syrians, two women and two children, were found dead on Friday in eastern Lebanon after having gone missing, the governor of Lebanon's Baalbek and Hermel region tweeted.

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  70 Per Cent Of Syria Refugees In Lebanon Live In 'Extreme Poverty': UN

  More than two-thirds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, according to a United Nations study published today, up nearly 50 percent from last year.

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  Britain's David Cameron Urges Support for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, Jordan

  British Prime Minister David Cameron said on a visit to Lebanon and Jordan on Monday that it was vital to provide support for refugees from Syria's civil war within the region to discourage them from risking their lives in trying to reach Europe.

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  In Rich Gulf Arab States, Some Feel Shame Over Response to Refugees

  When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Gulf states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaitis. Fast forward 25 years, and the homeless from Syria's nearby war have found scant refuge in the Arab world's richest states.

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  World Food Programme Forced to Cut Food Aid for Syrian Refugees by Half

  The U.N. World Food Programme has cut by half the amount of food assistance it can give to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon due to lack of funds, the agency said on Friday.

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  Tent School Offers Hope to Syrian Child Refugees

  In a squalid camp in eastern Lebanon, a school in a tent with a chalkboard and brightly coloured desks offers children who fled Syria's war a chance of an education.

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  In Lebanon, Syrian Newborns Risk Statelessness

  Nearly 30,000 Syrian children born as refugees in Lebanon are in a legal limbo, not registered with any government, exposing them to the risk of a life of statelessness deprived of basic rights.

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  Syrian Family Moves From War to New World: Uruguay

  Uruguay has offered to accept 120 refugees from Syria's civil war. It's a small number compared to the 3 million Syrians who have fled the conflict, now in its fourth year,

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  UN Says 13.6 Million Displaced by Wars in Iraq And Syria

  About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, many without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency said UNHCR on Tuesday.

• Syria Refugees in Lebanon Face Rising Violence: Human Rights Watch

  Syrian refugees in Lebanon are facing increasing violence as tensions in the country rise after jihadists kidnapped and killed Lebanese security forces, a human rights group warned on Tuesday.

• Syrian Refugee Women Face Harassment, Poverty

  Before she began working as a hairdresser, poverty forced Syrian Umm Mahmoud to seek donations for food and rent money to survive as a refugee in Lebanon.

• Syria Conflict Costs Lebanon $7.5 Billion: World Bank

  The conflict in Syria has cost Lebanon $7.5 billion as it struggles to cope with hosting more than a million refugees from the neighbouring country, according to World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim.

• Syrian Babies 'Born Refugees' in Lebanon

  Young mothers who fled Syria's war for dismal refugee camps in Lebanon struggle to imagine a future for their babies, even though they find their newborns a rare source of joy.

• Syrian refugees in Lebanon exceed 890,000

  The United Nations Higher Council for Refugees said on Sunday that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed 890,000, an addition of about 12,900 refugees since last week's report.

• Snowstorm brings new misery for Syria refugees

  Syrian refugee Faisal looks down at the muddy floor of his tent in a field in eastern Lebanon as it is battered by a snowstorm.