How the world sees Greece
Two groups of migrants have been sent back to Turkey from Greece as part of a controversial EU-Turkey deal aimed at curbing the refugee and migrant flow to Europe. As the first wave of refugees is deported from Greece to Turkey, human rights advocates have ...
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As the Herculean task to put Greece’s finances on an even keel continue, the country’s pay-TV industry has hit out at proposals to apply a special tax on households that subscribe to their services. The Greek pay-TV operators say that such plans will ...
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Turkey has promised to take back all irregular migrants landing on the Greek islands since March 20 - a figure which now stands at about 6,000 - while Europe has agreed to resettle one Syrian refugee directly from camps in Turkey for each Syrian deported.
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Five migrants - four women and one child - drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos close to Turkey's coast, Greek coast guard officials said on Saturday. Five other migrants were rescued, the officials said, and coast guard vessels assisted by a helicopter were searching for more survivors. The incident occurred a day after two ferries took more than 120 migrants back to Turkey from the Greek island of Lesbos, in the second round of returns under an EU deal with Ankara to halt mass migration across the Aegean Sea to Europe.
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Greece's coast guard says at least five migrants have drowned in the eastern Aegean Sea after a small plastic boat capsized. The five victims, four women and a child, were found around dawn Saturday northeast of the Greek island of Samos, close to the ...
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A boat, carrying refugees trying to reach Samos island in Greece, sank before it reached its destination early Saturday morning. Frontex as well as the Greek Coast guard are currently conducting a rescue operation in the area. Five passengers, four woman and a child, were pronounced dead by authorities while five more are missing. This
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DIKILI, Turkey – Greece on Friday resumed deportations of … ’t apply for asylum from Greece to Turkey. In exchange, the …
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