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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 file photo, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press after the signing ceremony with an international consortium to start exploratory offshore drilling for oil and gas in Beirut, Lebanon. Bassil ordered Friday, June 8, 2018 a freeze on the renewal of residency permits for the staff of the United Nations refugee agency, saying it is not encouraging Syrian refugees to return home. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon minister freezes UN refugee staff residency permits

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In this image made from Oct. 16, 2017, video released by UNHCR, thousands of Rohingya refugees arrive in Anjuman Para, Bangladesh, from Myanmar. Over 500,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and arrived in Bangladesh over the past seven weeks. (Roger Arnold/UNHCR via AP)

Thousands more Rohingya Muslims cross border into Bangladesh

By DAR YASIN - Associated Press

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Nov. 10, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump cuts Barack Obama’s refugee policy in half

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2015, photo, Ibrahim Mohamed, 80, and the oldest refugee at the center, who is both blind and deaf, adjusts his hat, at an orphanage that has been turned into a center for Yemeni refugees, in Obock, northern Djibouti. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Fleeing Yemen war, thousands stuck in Djibouti

By Mosa'ab Elshamy - Associated Press

Dire situation: For Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the urgent need for food, water and shelter takes priority over concerns about sanitation, medical care and education. Photo by Omar Alkalouti

Syrian refugee influx outpaces aid in Lebanon

By Kaylyn Hlavaty — Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Men carrying automatic weapons and bags are seen in the storeroom of the Nakumatt shop during the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 60 people in September. A Kenyan military spokesman confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani (left), Omar Nabhan (unseen), Khattab al-Kene (unseen) and Umayr (right). (AP Photo/Kenyan Defense Forces via Citizen TV)

One of Westgate Mall attackers lived in Kenyan refugee camp

By Jason Straziuso and Tom Odula - Associated Press

A Syrian woman carries buckets to fill with water at a refugee camp at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon. More than 812,000 Syrians in Lebanon are urban refugees, who live not in camps but in cities and towns. (Associated Press)

Syrian war refugees find crowds, crime, contagion at camps

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

U.S. pushes Iranian dissidents to accept Albanian asylum offer

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Angelina Jolie in Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie (Associated Press)

Angelina Jolie: Actress goes to Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

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Migrants are seen on a police bus in central Athens on Aug. 5, 2012. Greek police say officers have begun an operation to arrest and deport illegal migrants from the center of the capital and along the country’s northeastern border. Over 100,000 illegal immigrants cross into Greece annually, most through Turkey. (Associated Press)

Greece: 6,000 detained during raids on immigrants

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

UN: Jolie visiting Libya in personal capacity

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, left, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, sits with Pakistani flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)

Jolie mulling new role with U.N. refugee agency

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Jolie mulling new role with UN refugee agency

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

Witnesses: Ship with 600 migrants sinks off Libya

By Colleen Barry and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie visits Libya-Tunisia border

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press