Refugees and migrants flow has intensified after the failed coup in Turkey. According to official data from the Greek Migration Ministry and the Coast Guard. Since the failed coup attempt on July 15th, new arrivals from Turkey to Greece have increased with the daily average to reach 100 people. July …
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SYRIZA vs SYRIZA: Ruling Party against Government for refugees’ evacuation from occupied buildings
Greece’s ruling party SYRIZA condemned a decision of the SYRIZA-Indepenten Greeks government to have police raid and evacuate three buildings in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The buildings were occupied by anti-authoritarians and members of Solidarity movement who had settled refugees and migrants there. “Criminalizing solidarity projects is a method that has …
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Two children, two adults drowned trying to reach Lesvos
A girl, estimated between 4 and 6 years old, another child, a man and a woman were pulled dead from the sea area east off the island of Lesvos after a boat carrying refugees capsized. The plastic dingy had left the Turkish coast with eleven refugees on board. The shipwreck …
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Game of Thrones stars Sir Davos, Arya & Cersei visit refugees on Lesvos
Three stars of the popular Game of Thrones series found their way to the island of Lesvos on Wednesday to express solidarity with the refugees. Sir Davos (Liam Cunningham), Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) visited the camp Kara Tepe run by the municipality upon an invitation …
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) rejects EU Funds in protest at Refugee policies & EU-Turkey Deal
Humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today that it will no longer take funds from the European Union and Member States, in opposition to what the MSF describes as EU’s “damaging deterrence policies and intensifying attempts to push people and their suffering away from European shores.” The decision is …
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Boat with 60-80 refugees & migrants runs aground off Lesvos
A boat carrying 80 refugees and migrants run aground in the sea area south-southwest off the island of Lesvos on Thursday morning. According to local media, the boat was a normal touristic boat and was carrying 100 people. Two fishing boats and two patrol boats of the Greek Coast Guard …
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Austria: Refugees should be interned offshore, EU resolution to deprive asylum right, Ellis Island model
The head of Austria’s rightist Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz must be metaphorically exploding from the ideas going as expected by a politician of just 29 years old. The guy who looks like a member of arch-conservative student fraternity has left not detail out regarding solutions to stem the refugees and …
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Clashes among migrants in Moria: 15 injured, hot spot evacuated (picts, video)
Serious clashes among migrants and fires broke out in Moria hot spot on the island of Lesvos, leaving behind 15 people injured as well as serious damages in the camp that led to evacuation of hundreds of families. According to reports from the area, a brawl broke out between Afghans …
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Rescuer cradles drowned migrant baby. Shocking, right?
Hey! Don’t! Don’t look away! Right. The baby is not sleeping. The little one, probably less than a year old, half dressed in baby clothes, was pulled from the sea by the team of a German humanitarian organization operating a rescue boat between Libya and Italy on Friday. Rescuer Martin …
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No “open arms” but “firing arms” policy: Turkey’s border guards kill and injure Syrian refugees (video)
Turkish border guards have killed or beaten and injured more than a dozen Syrian asylum seekers as they tried to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Tuesday. “5 people among them a 15-year-old boy have been killed and 14 wounded during the months of …
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Chios: 120 applications to be sent back to Turkey, four migrants attempted to swim to Cesme
Tired of hanging around in poor living conditions and with no future in Europe, many refugees and migrants want to leave Greece. As the border to their promised lands remain close, they want to be sent back to Turkey. According to local media on the island of Chios, a total …
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Tension in Idomeni as refugees & migrants staged an action at the border fence to FYROM
One hundred refugees and migrants from the camp in Idomeni attempted to set up a tent at the border fence between Greece and FYROM on Thursday. Greek riot police intervened to stop the action, and some protesters started to hurl stones at the policemen and chant “Open borders!”. Eventually the …
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Refugees and migrants flow to Greece dramatically decreased
The flow of refugees and migrants to the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea has dramatically decreased during the last couple of days. According to official data, no refugee or migrants arrived on Lesvos for four consecutive day. 52 people arrived on Chios yesterday, Sunday, and 12 people arrived on …
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Lesvos: Police teargases refugees in Moria camp, after they throw water bottles at Migration Minister
Greek police fired teargas against refugees and migrants in Moria camp on the island of Lesvos on Tuesday. According to local media, tension started when Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas visited the camp and the refugees and migrants protested the living conditions by throwing plastic water bottles at the minister. the …
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Queen Rania of Jordan meets refugees on Lesvos
Queen Rania of Jordan visited the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday in her capacity as advocate for the humanitarian organization International Rescue Committee (IRC). She met with several refugees who told her their own personal stories of tragedy and despair. Stressing that this …
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Highlights of Pope Francis’ visit on Lesvos (Live Stream)
In a strong symbolic message to EU’s member countries, Pope Francis will leave the island of Lesvos with 10 refugees from the so-called vulnerable groups: sing-parent families, mothers with children, people with disabilities or health problems. the refugees have arrived in Greece before March 20th, when the EU Turkey Deal …
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Idomeni: FYROM fires teargas at fence protesters, Greece deploys riot police
Some 30 young men with their faces covered moved towards the border fence around 12 o’ clock on Wednesday and tried it bring it down. FYROM police fired stun grenades. Soon the situation escalated as more men joined the protest and FYROM police went over to fire tear gas. At …
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Granny “Without Borders” opens her house to refugees (video)
Panagiota Vasileiadou is an 82-year-old granny. Her home in in the village of Idomeni, the village very close to the camp that has been hosting at times more than 12,000 refugees and migrants. Granny Panagiota has witnessed hundreds of refugees begging for food to feed their children or clean water …
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Idomeni: At least 260 people hurt in incidents at Greece-FYROM borders
At least 260 migrants were hurt on Sunday when police fired tear gas at crowds of people as they tried to break through the Greece-Macedonia border, medical charity MSF said. “Two hundred people were treated by our medical unit for breathing problems, 30 for wounds caused by plastic bullets and …
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Idomeni: Children teargassed as FYROM goes against refugees in Greece
There has never happened before: that police of one country fires teargas on the soil of another country. FYROM police made extensive use of teargas and sound flares against refugees and migrants who are on Greece’s soil. The clashes started when a big crowd of refugees moved to the fence, …
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