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Angela Merkel has received the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award. As Germany's chancellor, Merkel received praise for her policy when displaced people arrived en masse, driven from Syria by civil war.
The U.N. refugee agency says it’s giving its highest award to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to accept more than 1 million refugees mostly from Syria into Germany, despite some criticism both at home and abroad
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