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Before images of the limp body of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Kurdish boy from the northern Syrian city of Qamishli, appeared in the global media, the UK had accepted only 216 refugees of the conflict since March of 2014.The British government has since pledged to re-settle 4,000 refugees per year in the UK for the next five years, and the US has agreed to take 10,000 in the next year. However, those figures still pale in comparison to other European states, led by Germany, which has offered to take in 800,000. The UK Conservative party's approach to the refugee crisis has been described as "wholly inadequate" by Labour's new leader Jeremy Corbyn.Read all of VICE News' coverage of the refugee crisis here
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