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Numbers of refugees, asylum-seekers increase in Germany

FILE - A federal police officer guards an arrested migrant at a police station on the German border town with Poland in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, on Oct. 28, 2021. More than 244,000 people applied for asylum in Germany last year, and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees came to the country looking for shelter from Russia's war, the government said Wednesday Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) FILE - People from Ukraine, most of them refugees fleeing the war, wait in front of the consular department of the Ukrainian embassy in Berlin, Germany, on April 6, 2022. More than 244,000 people applied for asylum in Germany last year, and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees came to the country looking for shelter from Russia's war, the government said Wednesday Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)