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Contents: Bulldozers bury the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais France; Russian and Syrian war crimes are ‘weaponizing’ the refugee crisis for Europe

The European Union will Wednesday announce plans for emergency aid to Greece which is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants with thousands stuck in misery at its border after Balkan states tightened their frontiers. Greece has asked for

Contents: Pakistan unexpectedly executes murderer of liberal politician Salman Taseer; Generational changes of behavior; Salman Taseer’s son describes what’s happened to Pakistan; Greece turns into a huge refugee camp

ATHENS (Reuters) – International lenders could return to Greece within the first 10 days of March to complete a bailout review, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, a move desperately needed by Athens to move on to debt relief

Contents: Surprise victory of reformists in Iran signals bloody power struggle; 70,000 refugees may be trapped in Greece within weeks

Some 6,500 people were stuck at the Idomeni camp on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia on Saturday after four Balkan countries announced a daily cap on migrant arrivals. The build-up began in earnest last week after Macedonia began refusing entry

Poland’s Foreign Minister has reacted forcefully to a plan by Italy to cut European Union (EU) funding for Eastern European countries that refuse to take in immigrants, calling the proposal “totally unjustified blackmail based on ignorance.” A week ago Italian

The EU has until a March 7 summit with Turkey to curb the number of migrants coming to Europe or else the bloc’s migration system might “completely break down”, migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Thursday. “In the next 10 days,

BRUSSELS, Feb 25 (Reuters) – NATO allies have agreed to a plan for their ships in the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece counter criminal networks smuggling refugees into Europe, NATO’s chief said on Thursday, overcoming territorial sensitivities between

Contents: Macedonia closes borders to thousands of stranded Afghan migrants in Greece; Belgium closes border to France after announcement to close Calais ‘Jungle’; Refugee crisis becomes devastating for Europe

Austria hosts talks Wednesday with countries along the well-trodden migrant path through the western Balkans to northern Europe, as tighter border controls raise fears of a humanitarian crisis, particularly in Greece. But Athens has angrily protested at being excluded from

Five thousand migrants have been turned away at the Greek-Macedonian border as Macedonian authorities only let Syrians and Iraqis with valid travel documents enter their country. The Greek government is totally alone, left to process over 5000 migrants whose numbers

More than 2,000 migrants are arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos every single day, even during the colder winter months. Authorities said yesterday that 6,000 people have arrived on the island during the past three days alone, despite bad

Austria introduced a daily cap on asylum-seekers, sparking EU fears of a domino effect along the Balkan migrant trail and a threat from Greece to veto an accord keeping Britain in the bloc. A maximum of 80 migrants per day

(AFP) – Greece wants its EU peers to pledge to keep their borders open to refugees until March or it will refuse to adopt an accord keeping Britain in the bloc at marathon talks on Friday, a government source said.

Over the past 15 years, the sale of babies in Bulgaria’s poor Roma communities has become almost commonplace. With help from traffickers, destitute parents are selling their newborns in neighbouring Greece, where adoption laws are lax. Grinding poverty among this

Over the past weekend, Greek farmers and others held a massive, (mostly) non violent flag waving, anti-tax, anti-price control, anti-pension payout cuts, protest in Athens. Tens of thousands of farmers from all over Greece traveled to Athens to rally in

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is continuing to fight his own rearguard action against both mass migration and the left-wing European establishment, calling illegal migrants “evil” and accusing Mrs. Merkel of creating instability. While the European Union (EU) and the

Four of Greece’s five new migrant registration centres are “ready to function and welcome refugees”, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said Tuesday, as Athens comes under intense pressure to control the massive influx to Europe. The four long-delayed “hotspot” centres will

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An Egyptian man is on trial in Greece accused of presenting himself as a Syrian refugee — a ploy that succeeded even though he had been apprehended for the same reason before in Greece, fingerprinted and

Protests against a new migrant camp on the Greek island of Kos turned violent yesterday as police fired tear gas and clashed with local residents. The island’s 30,000 residents are becoming increasingly agitated at plans to build a sprawling new

A 21-year-old Syrian man who smuggles migrants across the Mediterranean from Turkey to Greece at $580 a head says that he is a humanitarian who only wants to help people. “I am doing God’s work,” he says, while collecting cash

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — So where should the next impenetrable razor-wire border fence in Europe be built? Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban thinks he knows the best place — on Macedonia’s and Bulgaria’s borders with Greece — smack along

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have arrested two heavily armed suspects near the border with Turkey. A high-ranking security official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on

Contents: Increasingly desperate European Union threatens Greece over refugee crisis; European Union in chaos over the refugee crisis; Nato deploys warships to Aegean sea to deter people smugglers

EU member states on Friday gave Greece a three-month ultimatum to remedy “deficiencies” in controlling the influx of migrants or face border controls with the rest of the Schengen passport-free zone, EU sources said. The decision taken by ministers over

The Commission of the European Union (EU) has told Greece that it has three months to come into compliance with its system of registering and processing migrants, or its borders will be sealed and migrants will be forced to remain

Contents: Turkey will keep Syria border closed as Aleppo refugees mass; Europe sends mixed messages to Turkey about new flood of Syrian refugees; Syria, Iran and Russia ridicule Saudi Arabia’s army; Turkey confiscates parrots and parakeets on Syria border; North Korea launches long-range missile, violating Security Council resolution

Greece has been ordered to pay a failed asylum seeker from Gambia €10,000 by the European Court of Human Rights, after he successfully claimed that the Greek government had treated him in a degrading manner by placing him in a

More than half a million people have put their names to an online petition calling for Greek islanders on the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis to be awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. In a similar move, noted academics from

Ynetnews reports  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Nicosia on Thursday to discuss cooperation in the fields of energy, tourism, research and technology, environment, water management, combating terrorism, and

(AFP) – Greece has failed to protect the EU’s external frontiers from migrants and faces border controls with the rest of the Schengen passport-free zone in three months if it fails to act, the European Commission said Wednesday. The highly

(AFP) – Greece faced fresh pressure Saturday on its handling of the migrant crisis after Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner warned that Athens faced “temporary exclusion” from the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone. In midweek, Greece’s top migration official slammed a

BRUSSELS (AFP) –  European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said EU member states have “failed to deliver” on efforts to resolve the migrant crisis, including on a deal to relocate thousands of asylum seekers from Italy and Greece. So far just 272

As migration attempts to cross the Aegean Sea into Europe continue unabated, the bodies of at least 21 migrants drowned in a shipwreck were found at dawn Tuesday on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Local news agencies have reported that a

ATHENS (AFP) –  Greece’s prime minister on Sunday said his government will not give in to “unreasonable” demands as the debt-ridden country braces for critical negotiations with international creditors on the thorny issue of pension reform. The warning came just days