GENEVA: The number of people driven from their homes by conflict and crisis has topped 50 million for the first time since World War II, with Syria hardest hit, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.

The United Nation’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said there were 51.2 million forcibly displaced people at the end of 2013, a full six million higher than the previous year.

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