The Washington Post – Rescuers battled high waves Sunday as they searched for 200 asylum seekers still missing after their wooden ship sank off Indonesia’s main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been plucked alive from the choppy waters.
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7,600 asylum seekers in first six months of 2011
Industrialised countries saw a 17 per cent increase in asylum applications in the first half of this year, with most claimants coming from countries with long-standing displacement situations, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.