Refugee Numbers at Highest Level

The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says.

One in every 113 people is a refugee, an asylum seeker or internally displaced on the planet.

It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year.

The influx of people, the biggest since World War Two, has led to greater support to far-right groups and controversial anti-immigration policies.

In its annual report marking World Refugee Day, the UN said it was the first time ever that the number of refugees worldwide passed the 60m mark.

Over half of all of them came from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia, it added.