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FRIDAY BRIEFING: DIVISION REIGNS IN CATALONIA


Theresa May has made the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, personally responsible for how the service performs this winter... READ MORE

22nd December, 2017 258

REFUGEES HELD AT LESBOS RESORT TO SELF-HARM TO 'LEAVE THE ISLAND'


More than one million refugees have passed through Greece since 2015, often on their way to other countries in Europe... READ MORE

30th November, 2017 49

GREECE MOVES ASYLUM-SEEKERS FROM LESBOS TO MAINLAND


Greek authorities on Thursday moved a few hundred asylum-seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland in an effort to ease overcrowding in its camps... READ MORE

30th November, 2017 4

AFGHAN BOY, 10, 'CRUSHED TO DEATH' ON GREECE-BOUND BOAT


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

25th November, 2017 203

LIVES WILL BE LOST GREECE WARNED AS WINTER NEARS


Those measures have led to a build-up of more than 60,000 refugees and migrants in Greece... READ MORE

22nd November, 2017 692

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'I STOOD ON THOSE LESBOS BEACHES IN FLOODS OF TEARS'


In October 2015, photographer Giles Duley was commissioned by the UNHCR to document the refugee crisis... READ MORE

4th June, 2017 8867

THIS GREEK GRANDMOTHER COULD WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE


SKALA SYKAMIAS, Greece -- Emilia Kamvysi is not the typical Nobel Peace Prize candidate... READ MORE

6th October, 2016 8841

A DEAD BABY BECOMES THE MOST TRAGIC SYMBOL OF THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE CRISIS


Aid agencies estimate that, in August, around 2,000 people attempted the tricky crossing to Greece's eastern islands every day... READ MORE

2nd September, 2015 5079

REFUGEES CELEBRATE ON LESBOS BEACH BY TAKING A SELFIE AFTER REACHING GREEK ISLAND


Tomorrow they will join thousands waiting to be registered on the island before being given the go-ahead to travel to Athens before entering mainland Europe... READ MORE

6th September, 2015 4589

GERMANY TO RETURN REFUGEES TO GREECE STARTING IN MARCH


Under the European Union's so-called Dublin rules, would-be refugees must file for asylum in the first member-state of the bloc they enter... READ MORE

12th January, 2017 4520

SYRIAN REFUGEES HAVE MADE LESBOS A WAR ZONE AMID FEARS ISIS IS ENTERING EUROPE


The news comes as tensions were raised across Europe which is struggling to come to terms with its worst refugee crisis in 70 years... READ MORE

9th September, 2015 3512

GREEK ISLANDERS STOIC ABOUT PEACE PRIZE NOMINATION


Together with other islanders, Valamios has been nominated by Greek academics and the Hellenic Olympic Committee for the Nobel Peace Prize... READ MORE

7th October, 2016 2758

POPE TAKES 12 REFUGEES BACK TO ROME AFTER VISIT TO CAMP


Critics say the agreement has trampled on the civil rights of refugees fleeing war and betrayed the ideals of the European Union... READ MORE

16th April, 2016 2668

'EPIC IN SCALE, INCONCEIVABLE UNTIL YOU WITNESS IT'


People are being slaughtered in Syria and no one knows why... READ MORE

5th March, 2016 2301

'I LOVE MY DOG, I NEED HER'


And we ve seen many like him carrying their animals with them on the long journey from Syria across the Mediterranean Sea and through Europe... READ MORE

21st September, 2015 2292

CHINESE ARTIST AI WEIWEI POSES AS A DROWNED SYRIAN REFUGEE TODDLER


Chinese artist Ai Weiwei just posed as the dead refugee boy Ayan Kurdi. The photograph is the cynosure of all eyes at the India Art Fair... READ MORE

31st January, 2016 1813

THE REFUGEES ARE HERE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT


Grandi repeated the same desperate plea his organization has made since the first wave of Syrian refugees started These are people that flee from danger... READ MORE

7th February, 2017 1792

MIGRANT CRISIS: REFUGEES WELCOMED IN GERMANY LIKE WAR HEROES AS BERLIN EXPECTS 10,000 IN ONE DAY


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

6th September, 2015 1516

POPE FRANCIS TAKES REFUGEES BACK TO ROME FOLLOWING PROVOCATIVE AND EMOTIONAL LESBOS VISIT


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

16th April, 2016 1477

WHERE A WINTRY SEA SEEMS A SAFER BET THAN LIFE AT HOME


Both migrants and relief workers shrug when asked how far into the winter people will try to make the treacherous crossing... READ MORE

4th November, 2015 1470

WAVES OF YOUNG SYRIAN MEN BRING HOPE AND A TEST TO EUROPE


The United Nations refugee agency says that just over half are Syrians, followed by smaller groups from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq and elsewhere... READ MORE

7th October, 2015 1451

4.1 MILES: OSCAR NOD FOR FILM CAPTURING REFUGEE RESCUES


Daphne Matziaraki's powerful short documentary follows a Greek captain and his crew as they save refugees off Lesbos... READ MORE

29th January, 2017 1444

POPE RETURNS FROM GREECE WITH 12 MIGRANTS


Pope Francis has taken 12 Syrian migrants back with him to the Vatican after visiting a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos... READ MORE

16th April, 2016 1391

FRANCE LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISIL IN SYRIA


France did not previously carry out airstrikes against ISIL in Syria because it feared such action could maintain the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... READ MORE

27th September, 2015 1341

WINTRY BLAST IN GREECE IMPERILS REFUGEES IN CROWDED CAMPS


That is partly because the European Union has sent just a fraction of the assistance it pledged to Greece last year to help clear the backlog... READ MORE

12th January, 2017 1299

FIRST BOATS RETURNING MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES FROM GREECE ARRIVE IN TURKEY


Another campaigner, Idil Gokber, from Refugee Volunteers of Izmir, said Europe needed to help Turkey with its refugee burden... READ MORE

4th April, 2016 1270

HUNGARY: MIGRANTS SHOULD GO BACK 'WHERE THEY CAME FROM'; THREATENS MASS ARRESTS


Meanwhile thousands rallied Saturday on the streets of London and 14 000 assembled in Hamburg in support of migrants according to European media... READ MORE

12th September, 2015 1232

AID AND ATTENTION DWINDLING MIGRANT CRISIS INTENSIFIES IN GREECE


Even if 1,000 children died here, people in Europe wouldn't know about it, she said... READ MORE

13th August, 2016 1200

BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HE MET POPE FRANCIS


Sanders landed in Rome on Friday morning, and traveled to the Vatican in a motorcade... READ MORE

16th April, 2016 1160

ASYLUM SEEKERS BURN EU OFFICES IN GREEK MIGRANT CAMP (VIDEO, PHOTOS)


C Stringer AFP Asylum seekers, angry at the slow progress of their paperwork, attacked and burnt down offices at a camp in Lesbos, Greece... READ MORE

24th October, 2016 1152

TOURISTS IN GREECE JOIN VOLUNTEERS TO AID REFUGEES


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8th July, 2015 1115

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: WALKING WITH MIGRANTS


I first met him on a train we were traveling on from Serbia to Macedonia... READ MORE

26th September, 2015 1052

AT CHOKE POINTS ON THE WAY TO WESTERN EUROPE, CHAOS AND GROWING FRUSTRATION


The refugee crisis spiraled as European leaders prepared to wrangle over a plan that observers say will almost surely fall short... READ MORE

8th September, 2015 1022

SYRIAN AND IRAQI REFUGEES FLEEING IS FACE NEGLECT AND DEATH IN GREECE'S CAMPS


There are thousands of refugees and migrants that live in tents and warehouses and army barracks and their conditions don't necessarily meet humanitarian standards, she said... READ MORE

10th December, 2016 1015

WALKING WITH MIGRANTS: THE DIARY OF A JOURNEY FROM GREECE TO BERLIN


3pm, Piraeus I have met an Iraqi family who are pretending to be Syrian... READ MORE

27th September, 2015 984


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