In the latest humanitarian disaster to strike refugees trying to get to Europe, at least 18 people are reported to have drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece.The coastguard launched a search-and-rescue mission for other people believed to be missing from the accident. Sunday’s incident came as[…]
Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria, one of the last stepping stones to Germany for hundreds of thousands of[…]
Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants who stormed the border from Greece on Monday as a deeply divided Europe traded barbs over the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades. As frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans, migrants trapped on the Greece-Macedonia[…]
Greece has said it is taking action to persuade Macedonia to take in Afghan refugees as thousands remain stranded at the border and the main port in Athens. “We have begun diplomatic moves … we believe the problem will be resolved,” Yiannis Mouzalas, the junior interior minister for migration, told[…]
Police in Athens have used tear gas to disperse a rally of farmers protesting pension austerity measures as they pelted the Agriculture Ministry with stones. A larger protest demonstration is due to start later Friday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s formerly left-wing government plans to raise pension contributions and taxes to[…]
An Iraqi Kurdish man has been arrested at Athens airport in possession of a passport known to have been among a haul of official documents stolen by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, Greek police said on Monday. The 37-year-old was detained after flying in from the Turkish city of Istanbul[…]
At least 42 people, including 17 children, drowned when their boats capsized off two Greek islands near the Turkish coast on Friday, coastguards said, marking one of the deadliest days for migrants risking the perilous route to Europe from Turkey. According to survivors’ testimonies, dozens were on board a wooden[…]
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos welcoming earlier on Monday the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas referred to the sincere, traditional and enduring friendship between the Greek and the Palestinian people. Regarding the solution of the Palestinian problem, Pavlopoulos noted that Greece’s positions are timeless, traditional and are not going to change, and[…]
Greek leftist Alexis Tsipras stormed back into office with an unexpectedly decisive election victory on Sunday, claiming a clear mandate to steer Greece’s battered economy to recovery. The vote ensured Europe’s most outspoken leftist leader would remain Greece’s dominant political figure, despite having been abandoned by party radicals last month[…]
Europe is buckling under the pressure of one of the biggest mass migrations since World War II, with countries and relief groups scrambling to aid hundreds of thousands of refugees making their way from war-stricken parts of the Middle East and Africa. Greece in particular has been dealt the worst[…]
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