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Contents: EU threatens to impose travel restrictions on US/Canada visitors; EU migrant crisis moves to Italy as Austria begins closing border; Austria begins construction on border controls with Italy

Macedonian police fired tear gas as migrants screamed “Allah hu Akbar” and tried to break through the border fence from Greece in a series of clashes that left over 200 people injured on Sunday. The incident happened at the Idomeni

Contents: ‘Horrific’ scenes as Macedonian police lob teargas into Idomeni refugee camp; Armenia-Azerbaijan ceasefire holds, despite hundreds of ‘breaches’

Heavily armed Macedonian police deployed tear-gas launchers, rubber bullets and stun grenades at the border with Greece this morning as an organised migrant invasion attempted to force the fence. Thousands of anonymous leaflets written in Arabic had been in circulation

Contents: EU-Turkey refugee deal fraught with chaos and legal and political problems; Turkey’s Erdogan threatens to terminate the refugee deal

Pro-migrant activists in Greece swam in font of a ferry as it attempted to returning migrants to Turkey, clinging to the anchor chain to stop the vessel moving off. BBC Radio 4 this morning repeatedly claimed they were ‘migrants’, not Western activists. Yet

As the European Union deal with Turkey gets under-way and illegal migrants who have not yet applied for asylum in a EU nation are deported, thousands are rushing to get their paperwork processed in Greece, even if it isn’t their

A migrant has threatened to throw a young baby at Greek officers during a clash over plans to move the migrants to a holding centre. Greek commentators have denounced the event as ‘barbaric’. According to various reports the man grabbed

Contents: In desperation, EU tries to overhaul its refugee asylum rules; As migrants turn to the Libya route, Germany warns Italy not to wave migrants through

(Reuters) – Turkey and Germany said on Wednesday an agreement between Ankara and the EU meant to stem the flow of migrants to the Greek islands was showing signs of success, but many were still trying to cross the sea

(Reuters) – The European Union was in such a rush to start deportations of unwanted migrants from Greek islands to Turkey this week that it skirted legal questions weighing on the scheme as it tries to stem an influx into

Within the coming week Pope Francis will visit the Greek island of Lesbos, which has been dubbed “the gateway to Europe” because of the staggering number of migrants arriving to its shores, to draw attention to the plight of migrants

Athens — the last European capital without a mosque — is likely to be hit by Islamic terror attacks unless it rapidly builds one with tax payer money, local government officials have warned. “Every day that we do not have

An American lawyer is attempting to help clog up Greece’s asylum applications system to prevent migrants from being deported to Turkey. 30 year-old Kavita Kapur came to Greece initially to help cook for migrants who were stuck in Greece after Macedonia

The landmark EU-Turkey migrant summit deal may already be failing as Greece decides to postpone deportations in large migrant camps. There were no deportations of migrants from the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday because, according to the Greeks, there

A day after Greece deported hundreds of migrants to Turkey under an EU deal meant to discourage others from making the same perilous journey to Europe, anger was simmering on Greek islands and asylum applications were piling up. Under the

(AFP) – Pope Francis will travel to the Greek island of Lesbos on the frontline of Europe’s refugee crisis next week, Greece announced Tuesday, as a controversial EU accord to send migrants back to Turkey stalled. The trip by the

Migrants and left wing, German agitators have been demonstrating the “shameful” European Union (EU) plan to send “irregular” migrants back to Turkey, which came into effect today. “If they make me go back to Turkey I’ll throw myself and my

The Greek government deported more than 200 migrants back to Turkey early Monday morning, the first enactment of a recent agreement between the European Union (EU) and Turkey meant to curb migration via the “Balkan route” into Europe. European police

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that “we are still a good distance away” in negotiations for a new deal for hard-up Athens. Her strongly worded letter to the prime minister, made

Greece sent a first wave of migrants back to Turkey on Monday under an EU deal that has faced heavy criticism from rights groups. A small Turkish ferry, the Lesvos, and a larger catamaran, the Nezli Jale, left the island

(Reuters) – Migrants sent back from the Greek island of Lesbos began arriving in Turkey on Monday under a European Union deal aimed at stopping the influx of migrants and refugees into Europe since last year. The first of two

Contents: Armenia vs Azerbaijan conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh worst in two decades; Russian analysis: Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict could spread throughout the region; New EU-Turkey migrant crisis is developing rapidly

ISTANBUL/ATHENS (Reuters) – Migrants protested on a Greek island and rights groups raised legal objections on Friday three days before a disputed EU deal to return rejected asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey was due to go into action, with

On Wednesday, an Italian Coast Guard vessel rescued 774 migrants in the Strait of Sicily between Italy and North Africa, one of a seemingly endless series of new waves of migrants moving north as the weather becomes more temperate.

ANKARA (Reuters) – Five days before Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal migrants from Greece under a deal with the European Union, neither side is fully ready, with officials scrambling to be able to make at least a

Contents: Human traffickers sell routes through Europe for 5000 euros; Europeans expect hundreds of thousands of migrants from Libya

The horrendous attacks in Brussels last week understandably dominated the news. The slaughter of innocent civilians in yet another of Europe’s capitals has left many questioning how exactly our membership of the EU makes us safer. It is far too

Left wing extremists and anarchists have occupied private housing and a university building in Athens in order to hand them over to migrants. For the past few weeks various groups of left wing extremists and anarchists have been breaking into

A protest by hundreds of migrants, egged on by activists to demand that the border between Greece and Macedonia be opened, passed without any serious incidents on Sunday. However, it exposed rifts between different ethnic groups among the over 11,000

(Reuters) – Greece said on Thursday it would speed up the creation of reception centres for up to 30,000 migrants to help cope with a sharp rise in numbers because of border closures in the Balkans that cut off the

Contents: EU desperation continues on second day of EU-Turkey refugee deal; Humanitarian agencies condemn the EU-Turkey refugee deal

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(Reuters) – Turkish officials arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday to help implement a deal with the European Union to tackle a migrant crisis that has tested European cohesion to its limits. The day after the formal

LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – They waved, cheered and smiled, elated to have made it to Europe at dawn on Sunday in a packed blue rubber motor boat. The 50 or so refugees and migrants were among the first to arrive

Greece will not be able to start sending refugees back to Turkey from Sunday, the government said, as the country struggles to implement a key deal aimed at easing Europe’s migrant crisis. Under the agreement clinched between Brussels and Anakara