UN Chief Urges States to Focus on Crisis Solutions, Not Border Controls

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi talks to reporters during a visit to the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria as displaced people arrive from Lebanon on October 7, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi talks to reporters during a visit to the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria as displaced people arrive from Lebanon on October 7, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
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UN Chief Urges States to Focus on Crisis Solutions, Not Border Controls

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi talks to reporters during a visit to the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria as displaced people arrive from Lebanon on October 7, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi talks to reporters during a visit to the Jdeidat Yabus border crossing in southwestern Syria as displaced people arrive from Lebanon on October 7, 2024. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

The head of the UN refugee agency on Monday urged countries to focus on solutions to crises and to drop measures to block refugees and migrants at their borders, saying they are ineffective and sometimes illegal.
Addressing over 100 diplomats and ministers in Geneva at UNHCR's annual meeting, Filippo Grandi said an unprecedented 123 million people are displaced around the world, Reuters reported.
"You might then ask: what can be done? For a start, do not focus only on your borders," he said, urging leaders instead to look at the reasons people are fleeing their homes.



Trump Says He Is in No Rush to Talk with Iran

US President Donald Trump (C), flanked by US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (L) and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 15, 2025. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump (C), flanked by US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (L) and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 15, 2025. (AFP)
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Trump Says He Is in No Rush to Talk with Iran

US President Donald Trump (C), flanked by US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (L) and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 15, 2025. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump (C), flanked by US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (L) and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 15, 2025. (AFP)

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Tehran was hoping to engage in discussions with the United States, but he is in no rush to talk with Iran.

"They would like to talk. I'm in no rush to talk because we obliterated their site," Trump told reporters after his arrival in Washington after a trip to Pittsburgh, referring to US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites last month.