UN refugee agency: Conflict displaced a record 65 million people in 2015
The UN refugee agency says persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year.
The previous year had already seen the highest number of refugees worldwide since the Second World War, with 60 million displaced people, but last year - when Europe saw the arrival of large numbers of migrants - topped that record by nearly 10%, the UNHCR said in unveiling its annual Global Trends Report.
