GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- More than 200 people are feared dead or missing at sea following accidents off Turkey, the Canary Islands and Yemen, a Swiss-based U.N. agency said Friday.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A top U.N. official says the increased violence in Somalia has led to the displacement of 1 million people.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are packing their bags to visit survivors of the horrific Oct. 8 earthquake in Pakistan.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Montagnard refugees returned or deported from Cambodia to Vietnam seem to be adapting, U.N. officials say after finishing their first monitoring visit.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Togolese refugees in Benin and Ghana exceed 40,000, but a funding shortfall impairs the United Nations' ability to help, the U.N. Refugee agency says.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 31 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency is concerned over a surprise relocation of thousands of Rwandan asylum-seekers by Burundian authorities.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 24 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency says the number of Rwandans returning to Congo has risen dramatically since a feared militia said it would repatriate after disarming.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency and the European Commission are gathering information on asylum seekers and migration across North Africa into Europe.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- U. N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers has met with high-ranking Pakistani officials on the possibility of returning refugees to Afghanistan.