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Canada pushes back deadline for accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees

by Reuters
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:39 GMT

Clothing donated for an expected influx of Syrian refugees is sorted by volunteers for size and gender at a theatre rehearsal space in Toronto November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

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By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Canadian government on Tuesday pushed back to the end of February its deadline for accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees, in an apparent concession that its original end-2015 target was too difficult to meet.

Ottawa said in a statement it would still aim to take in at least 10,000 by end-December. It said it would give priority to complete families, women at risk and gay or transgendered people.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren and Randall Palmer)

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