Burying drowned migrants is part of a broader Greek problem Apr 20th 2016, 12:55 by M.TZ. and ERASMUS | MYTILENE THE newly established graveyard, a short drive west of Mytilene port, is a desperately sad place. In the middle of an olive grove, there are dozens of mounds of crumbly earth, some created only a […]
Reuters International APR 10, 2016 – 17:37 By Stoyan Nenov IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants and refugees were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, aid workers said, an act condemned by Greece as […]
Source: BBC The first boats carrying migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe. Most of […]
MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
By AFP – Mar 22,2016 -JORDAN TIMES A migrant girl exits a tent in the makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Tuesday (AP photo) GENEVA — The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday harshly criticised an EU-Turkey deal on curbing the influx […]
Reuters International MAR 22, 2016 – 09:45 LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency has stopped transporting migrants arriving on Lesbos from Turkey to a reception facility as their subsequent freedom of movement is no longer guaranteed, a UNHCR spokesman said, referring to last week’s EU-Turkey deal. The […]
Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionJames Reynolds watched the first group of migrants arriving on Lesbos as the new rules came into force Turkish observers have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to oversee an EU deal on sending […]
At a Dunkirk refugee camp, Sarah Whitehead hears a story of five sons who lost their mother but who refused to give up until they found her again Beshwar and […]
Ten-year-old Mahdi reunites with his mother after his family believed he was dead for over a year. Photo: DPA. Published: 07 Mar 2016 16:13 GMT+01:00 A 10-year-old boy had an emotional reunion on Monday with his family, who thought he had drowned in their voyage from Turkey to Greece a […]
Epigraph: “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive anew; gradually, however, it attracts, it astonishes, and, in the end forces admiration.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Source: […]
28/01/2016 Opinion Related Articles Resistance and occupation 01/02/2016 For 70 years, Greece and Palestine have been close friends and allies. Will short-term economic interests between Greece and Israel lead Greece’s leaders to abandon us? By Nabil Sha’ath Built on common experience, long-term interests and moral principles, Palestine’s relationship with Greece goes […]
By Imam & National President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Greece Tel: +30 2112140522 | Fax: +30 2112140522 Website: http://www.alislam.org, http://www.mta.tv, http://www.loveforallhatredfornone.org “The principle to which we adhere is that we have […]
AFP Even as Chancellor Merkel continues pursuing a deal with Turkey, Austria and its Balkan neighbors to the south have taken things into their own hands. With fences going up across the region, Greece is in trouble and the EU can’t figure out what to do. By SPIEGEL Staff A […]
Source: BBC European Council President Donald Tusk is due to visit Greece and Turkey as he tries to find a common approach to Europe’s worsening migration crisis. Mr Tusk has […]
Source: BBC The European Union is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of euros on humanitarian aid, as Greece struggles to cope with an influx of migrants. Under plans to […]
Source: The Guardian Up to 70,000 migrants and refugees could soon be stranded in Greece, the government has said, as it considers enlisting the help of the army to deal […]
Louisa GOULIAMAKIKaterina Nikolopoulou| Agence France Presse Idomeni, Greece: Stranded migrants lay with their children on rail tracks at Greece’s northern border Sunday, demanding to be allowed to continue their journey, as Athens warned the number of people “trapped” on its soil could more than triple next month. Tensions between European […]
Source: i100 Independent On 22 December, Greece’s parliament voted in a non-binding resolution to recognise the state of Palestine, making it the latest European country to do so. The parliamentary […]
Refugees warm themselves at the fire in the reception center of Moria on Lesvos island, Dec. 31, 2015. (Xinhua/Liu Yongqiu) MYTILENE, Greece, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — The first snowflakes fell on New Year’s Eve at the reception center of Moria in the suburbs of capital Mytilene on Lesvos island […]
Source: RT.com The Greek parliament has unanimously voted to recognize Palestine as an independent state. It comes amid an official visit to Greece by the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The […]