VIENNA (AP) -- The latest developments on the mass migration into Europe (all times local): 2:55 p.m. Angelina Jolie, the actress and special envoy for the U.N.'s refugee agency, says the international community must address the root causes of the global refugee crisis. Speaking in the rain in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Jolie says "we cannot manage the world through aid relief in the place of diplomacy and political solutions." Half of Syria's prewar population of 23 million has been displaced, with around 5 million having fled their homeland, mainly to neighboring Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. Lebanon alone hosts well over a million Syrian refugees, who now account...
↧