June 12 (UPI) -- The Americas was the world's leading region for forced displacement in 2025, with 22.8 million refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and needing international protection, the United Nations refugee agency reported Friday. The figure represents an increase from the 21.9 million recorded a year earlier. The rise was driven primarily by crises in Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, Colombia and northern Central America. The annual report by the United Nations refugee