Brussels, 29/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - Requests for asylum in the European Union fell statistically in the first half of 2008. According to a report by the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) published on 17 October, there were 96,300 new asylum applications recorded in the first six months of 2008, 11% fewer than in the second half of 2007, when there were 108,200, and 3% down on the 99,700 requests recorded in the first half of 2007. The report, on 44 industrialised countries across...