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Merkel receives UN refugee agency award

October 11, 2022

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has received the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award in recognition of her role in welcoming more than 1.2 million refugees to Germany at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015 and 2016.

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