Fearing deportation to Turkey or elsewhere, rejected asylum seekers say they feel unsafe going outside in Lesbos... READ MORE›
But despite the agreement, people desperate to reach Europe have continued arriving on Greece's islands, with numbers growing over the past few months... READ MORE›
Those measures have led to a build-up of more than 60,000 refugees and migrants in Greece... READ MORE›
Critics say the agreement has trampled on the civil rights of refugees fleeing war and betrayed the ideals of the European Union... READ MORE›
The pope spent the morning meeting hundreds of migrants and refugees in a notorious detention centre on the island... READ MORE›
People greet refugees as they arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany Photo Corbis I feel very safe here, she told the Telegraph... READ MORE›
But that was before Saturday, when Pope Francis whisked in and pioneered a third a ride with him on a jet bound for Rome... READ MORE›
Both migrants and relief workers shrug when asked how far into the winter people will try to make the treacherous crossing... READ MORE›
MYTILENE Greece On this vacation island ringed by the clear Aegean Sea it is now the tourists who are the rarity... READ MORE›
The British family saving thousands of refugees' lives in Lesbos... READ MORE›
Hours before Francis arrived, the European border patrol agency Frontex intercepted a dinghy carrying 41 Syrians and Iraqis off the coast of Lesbos... READ MORE›
The Pope has taken three families of Syrian refugees on his plane back to Rome... READ MORE›
But even as Europe was sending people back to Turkey aboard ferries, migrants on rafts continued to arrive in Greece... READ MORE›
The numbers were still far shy of commitments to distribute about 160,000 asylum seekers among European Union countries... READ MORE›
Yet in a year of unparalleled migration to Europe, Lesbos has been transformed from a quietly sublime slice of paradise to a modern-day Ellis Island... READ MORE›
The Greek coast guard in Lesbos only has around three or four boats, she added, justifying the volunteers' work... READ MORE›
The shaking legs of a 29-year-old woman from Aleppo in Syria attest to the harrowing nature of the trip... READ MORE›
The crossing between Greece and Turkey is much shorter than from Libya to Italy, but it is now becoming very treacherous, O'Sullivan said... READ MORE›
Another boat carrying a larger group of migrants was due to leave Lesbos later in the morning, Greek state TV reported... READ MORE›
Refugee crisis EU deportations to Turkey from Lesbos continue despite protests... READ MORE›
These asylum seekers were smuggled to the Greek island from Turkey before Europe shut the door to new arrivals on March 20... READ MORE›
To help, Frontex, the European Union's border protection unit, has sent 16 boats, one airplane, one helicopter and three patrol cars to five Greek islands... READ MORE›
Refugee crisis Shipping strike on Lesbos leaves 20,000 asylum seekers stranded... READ MORE›
Pope Francis is due to visit a detention center holding migrants where inhabitants say they are living in horrendous conditions... READ MORE›
Misery of waterlogged refugees the new normal on Greece's Lesbos Margaret Evans... READ MORE›
Under the EU-Turkey deal, all irregular migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey since March 20 face being sent back... READ MORE›
Ever since the EU and Turkey deal, refugees arriving on the Greek islands are immediately detained... READ MORE›
Pope Francis is visiting Lesbos, the Greek island on the frontline of Europe's refugee crisis for people seeking to reach Western Europe on boats from Turkey... READ MORE›
Greece, Italy and Hungary have been overwhelmed this year -- and especially this summer -- by a flood of refugees and migrants seeking safety in Europe... READ MORE›
MYTILENE, Greece -- The human traffickers who brought a million desperate asylum seekers through Turkey to the Greek islands have been stopped... READ MORE›
The European Union will then accept a certain number of Syrian refugees from camps in Turkey... READ MORE›
Removal of 202 people from Greece to Turkey passes unexpectedly peacefully but observers say these were just the easy cases... READ MORE›
In Mytilene, where most of the migrants gather hoping to catch a boat off the island, they sleep in the open without toilets or showers... READ MORE›
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