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(REUTERS) – A European Union scheme to relocate refugees from frontline countries Greece and Italy to other member states must be bigger and move faster, the U.N. refugee chief said in Athens on Wednesday. The programme, devised last year, was

Greece has been forced to suspend blood donations after a spike in cases of malaria, believed to have been brought over by the large influx of migrants who have entered the country. So far, 12 municipalities have out of 325

Contents: Number of migrants reaching Greece surges since Turkey’s attempted coup; Concern grows over unsafe conditions in refugee camps in Greece; Fears grow that the EU-Turkey migrant deal will collapse

Greece plans to reduce overcrowding at migrant camps on its islands, a government official said on Wednesday, to ease growing tensions and improve conditions that campaigners have called “disgraceful”.

Contents: Truck bombing by PKK terrorists kills seven in southeastern Turkey; Turkey threatens EU migrant deal, saying EU is humiliating Turkey, not helping; Turkey’s failed coup raises concerns about nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base

As Turkish President Erdogan has threatened Europe with releasing as many as 3 million new migrants, Bulgaria has stepped up its plans of adding a 20-mile-long wall along its border with Greece and Turkey.

According to data from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), arrivals are up 17 percent on last year, stoked mainly by a spike at the start of the year through Greece.

With Turkey in crisis and Europe’s borders closed, smugglers in northern Greece are expecting a profitable summer.

Turkey will back out of its agreement with the EU to stem the flow of migrants if Turkes are not given visa-free by October, the Foreign Minister has said.

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(REUTERS) – Greece on Monday unveiled plans to revise its constitution, formally proposing a clearer distinction between the state and the powerful Orthodox Church, changes in how the president is elected and limiting terms of lawmakers in parliament.

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Turkish military helicopter that landed in the Greek border city of Alexandroupolis just as an attempted coup was being quashed in Turkey has turned into one of the toughest diplomatic challenges to date for Greece’s

A migrant rights NGO and Greek government officials warn that the crackdown on opposition by Turkey’s president could lead to a huge wave of Turks and others flooding into Europe.

The Turkish coup plotters who fled to Greece to seek asylum will not be deported immediately back to Turkey, but will face trial for illegally entering the country. The eight soldiers who fled to Greece to seek asylum will not

Then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton appears to have sought inside information on a potential European Union bailout as her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, speculated on defaulting Greek bonds in 2012 with CalPERS’ public pension cash as his hedge fund was getting wiped out.

With a reprise of warm weather, record numbers of migrants have attempted crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa into Italy this week, with more than 7,000 migrants rescued and taken to southern Italy between Thursday and Friday.

The Turkish government has sanctioned Quran recitations by a different senior Islamic cleric each day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan so far this year at the secular Hagia Sophia Museum. Christian-majority Greece has condemned the move as the “creeping Islamization of the building,” reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

A coalition of “Greek personalities from political parties and groups, as well as from the cultural fields” have signed an open letter encouraging the UK to leave the EU after their own national experience with the anti-democratic institution.

ATHENS, June 17 (Reuters) – Greece wants to dramatically escalate returns of migrants to Turkey in the coming weeks under a European Union deal with Ankara, the migration minister said on Friday, amid criticism it has been too slow to

The narrative that Syrians are “fleeing war” has been shattered again as dozens of migrants in Greece pay smugglers to return them to Turkey and Syria. Living safely in camps, they say Europe isn’t the “better life” they hoped for. In

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has put out an appeal for millions of dollars’ worth of extra charitable funding to help migrants in the Balkans, claiming that their original target of $555 million is now not enough. In January, the

Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu responds cautiously to Tel Aviv terror attack; West Bank Palestinians reject call to end security cooperation with Israel; Turkey endures two days of terror bombing attacks; Terror attacks in Turkey complicate EU-Turkey migrant deal

Migrants in the Greek migrant camp on the island of Chios have burned down their tents, and some have threatened to kill children in protest of asylum waiting times. Police have arrested several migrants who started a riot in the

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made an impassioned plea for keeping Europe’s internal Schengen—zone borders open, despite the migrant crisis. The warning of destruction, which has followed several others made at times where borders have had to be closed in

Afghan and Pakistani migrants have fought each other, rioted and burnt down brand new accommodation on the Greek Island of Lesbos after the two ethnic groups accused each other of molesting children and stealing. The violence and destruction on Thursday night left

REUTERS — France plans to take in 400 refugees a month from Greece under a European Union plan for distributing asylum seekers, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Thursday, substantially increasing its intake. The announcement came as Prime Minister Manuel

Hundreds of migrants were rescued from a sinking ship on Friday in a massive operation in the southern Mediterranean off the island of Crete, the Greek coastguard said, but three bodies were also recovered. Greek search and rescue teams were

(REUTERS) – More than 200 migrants were rescued in the south Aegean Sea off the island of Crete after their boat sank, Greece’s coastguard said on Friday. “So far about 250 people have been rescued, based on the first data,”

The ECB, expected to hold fire on monetary policy at its meeting Thursday, will likely focus instead on welcoming Greece back into the fold of fully-fledged eurozone borrowers after a bailout deal, analysts said. After months of fighting the threat

The European Union Commissioner for migration has admitted that there are three million migrants in Turkey waiting to enter Europe. European Union (EU) Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos admitted that while on a visit to Athens on Monday there are approximately three million migrants waiting

After the Greek government successfully cleared 8,000 migrants from the Idomeni camp, half of them have gone missing. The notorious Idomeni migrant camp, that has been the subject of attempted border crossings, riots and even deaths, was finally cleared as of

AFP – Crisis-hit Greece hopes to re-energize relations with Moscow at a two-day visit by Russian leader Vladimir Putin that could bring badly-needed energy and trade breakthroughs, the government daily said Friday. “Putin visit reheats Greek-Russia relations,” Avgi daily said,

IDOMENI/EVZONI, Greece, May 26 (Reuters) – They packed up their belongings and began to walk, some heading for the fields, others to a gas station, all seeking to avoid going to state-run Greek migrant camps where they fear they will

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