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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three days before traveling to Dinamo Zagreb for a Champions League game, Olympiakos had no trouble beating visiting third-place AEK 4-0 in the Greek league Saturday despite resting some of its starters.
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… roll back. The election saw Greece’s lowest voter turnout in … 50 years. The bailout is Greece’s third since 2010 with … . The international creditors will review Greek progress next month before authorizing …
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Source: www.spoon-tamago.com - Saturday, October 17, 2015 all photos by Yoshiro Masuda | click to enlarge When STOCK opened last month in Tokyo it was clear that the 4-storied structure was much more than a co-working space. With a disproportionately large kitchen, STOCK and all its small details from the furniture to the orientation of offices were designed to bring people together, rather than having them work in isolation. With the proliferation of wework , shared offices are increasingly becoming our generations equivalent of the semi-exclusive restaurant clubs where Italians or Greeks would go to hang out in. In a smart piece titled Social (Media) Clubs , Kyle Chayka calls coworking spaces the new social network. “These are meant as spaces for work, unlike online social networks,” he says. “But their real product isn’t so much an office as it is interconnection, a sense of belonging.” And the same is true for Japan. Even in a country where social interaction with strangers is rare, coworking spaces are gaining popularity. There was The Scape(r) and Midoriso . And the latest to join is STOCK , which is attempting to offer coworking spaces to the food community. all the furniture in the space was custom-made by iei studio Architect Yoshiki Ogata explains that he imagined people from all different backgrounds coming around a large dining table to talk and share ideas. The kitchen’s island is intentionally facing the offices and additional considerations were made for plants within the All Related
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A woman and three children have drowned after their boat capsized off the GREEK island of Kalymnos, the country's coast guard has said. Thirteen ...
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lew-dijelbloom-708 U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew spoke with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem by telephone on Friday and urged the ...
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Demetrios will be participating in a conference hosted by the Greek Foreign Ministry on October 18-19. The conference, entitled “Religious and ...
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More than 20 GREEK museums, galleries and cultural institutions provided artifacts for the exhibition, which spanned some 5,000 years of GREEK history ...
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Athens, Friday, to rally against proposed changes to Greece's pension and social security system, which are ...
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Greek ports sales to be delayed by a month -privatisation chief. ATHENS. ATHENS Oct 17 Greece will put off by a month the sale of majority stake in its ...
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There's a tragically ironic subtext to Europe's refugee crisis, which is becoming increasingly problematic as the war in Syria rages. Turkey has become the prime entry point for hundreds of thousands of Syrians making their way to Europe, and Italy's navy continues to rescue thousands of refugees off Libya's coast. And now that the refugee influx has intensified, Italy can no longer count on a key ally who helped stem the flow in the past: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who died in 2011 after being ousted by a NATO-backed revolution. "The EU has never wanted to take those people in. The only difference is that before we were paying Gaddafi so we didn't have to deal with them," Anand Menon, professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King's College, told Business Insider. Menon added that the EU's recent announcement that it would start cracking down on the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum is a "clearly politically motivated" move in line with Europe's longstanding foreign policies. In 2009, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Gaddafi signed an agreement that Italy would pay Libya $5 billion over 25 years as a repayment for its occupation of Libya in the first half of the 20th century. What Italy got out of the deal, besides strengthening its energy ties with the African country, was clear: Libya would crack down on the migrants trying to cross into Europe. A year later, Humans Rights Watch (HRW) published a report blasting Italy for the deal and its treatment of the people trying to reach its shores. The report said conditions in migrants' detention camps across Libya "generally qualify as inhuman and degrading" and that migrants and refugees often undergo "brutal treatment." Meanwhile, the HRW report said, Italy blocked people from entering the country without any regard for whether they would qualify as refugees. THE AGREEMENT FALLS APART Shortly after the beginning of the Libyan civil war in February 2011, Italy suspended the "friendship deal" it had with Libya as the agreement included a non-aggression clause. That meant Italy would not allow its territory to be used as base for any military action against the African country. A few weeks later, as Gaddafi desperately tried to hold on to power, he told French media, "There are millions of blacks who could come to the Mediterranean to cross to France and Italy, and Libya plays a role in security in the Mediterranean." The Italian government managed to renew the agreement with the Libyan National Transitional Council in April 2012, even though the European Court of Human Rights found just a few months earlier that Italy had violated migrants' rights by sending them back to Libya. But Libya has continued its descent into chaos since the deal was renewed, and it seems clear Italy may no longer be able to count on the country to help keep out the influx of refugees. “I am not aware of any concrete cooperation projects [between Italy and Libya] beyond 2013,” Matteo de Bellis, a researcher for Amnesty International on the European Union team, told Business Insider. The ongoing turmoil in Libya and the fact that Italian coast guards have been rescuing migrants at sea rather than sending them back suggests that at least some tenets of the agreement are not implemented anymore. EUROPE'S ANSWER IS 'NOT GOOD ENOUGH' FOR ITALY For months, Italy has been at the forefront of the refugee crisis in Europe and, along with Greece, has been pressing Northern European countries to help. Amid waves of refugees, many of them fleeing Syrian regime barrel bombs, other European countries did nothing, and when they realized the magnitude of the crisis, they did too little. As Europe faces its worse migration crisis since World War II, the response shows one crucial vulnerability at the heart of the union: The countries have not been able after months of struggling to decide on one common response. Germany's leading party and its Bavarian counterparts recently agreed to create transit zones through which asylum seekers would need to go before entering the country. Those with virtually no chance of gaining asylum will have to go back. And the UK appeals court just backed a "deport first, appeal later" policy. But the only two coordinated responses the EU has issued on the matter so far have been a resettlement of 160,000 refugees — 710,000 have entered the bloc so far this year — and an announcement that it would step up the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum. "This is a very political move," Menon told Business Insider. "Leaders can now go home and will get brownie points. They can say 'look at what I've done — we will be sending some home.'" Indeed, Italy has been highly critical of Europe's response. Addressing the Italian parliament on Wednesday, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said that the European Union had to reassess its response to the refugee crisis. "On the issue of migration, Italy was right, and the rest of Europe was not ... From the first day, we have said it was time to change EU policy on these issues," Renzi said. He emphasized that the crisis "should not be underestimated." "Let me be clear, Europe's answers so far have not been good enough," Renzi added. In June, Italy had already asked the European Union to set up processing camps in Libya as the country struggled to deal with the unending wave of migrants coming in from Africa. Renzi also said that if Europe failed to act, they had a mysterious plan B ready. "But it would first and foremost hurt Europe," Renzi said, according to the AFP. _Business Insider reached out to the Italian government for comment and will update this post with any comment we receive. _ SEE ALSO: THE DEPRESSING REASON THE MEDITERRANEAN MIGRANT CRISIS WON'T END ANY TIME SOON Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: This 26-year-old from Baltimore took a 35,000-mile road trip and ended up fighting in the Libyan revolution
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A new study by the Prolepsis Institute shows how Greece's economic crisis has adversely impacted children's lives in the country. According to the ...
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday a solution was needed to end the division of Cyprus and guarantee the stability of the eastern Mediterranean, touching on an issue that has long hampered Turkey's bid for membership of the European Union. The four-decade division of Cyprus between the Greek-speaking south, which is an EU member, and the breakaway Turkish-backed north has slowed Turkey's EU accession efforts. Only Ankara recognises northern Cyprus as a separate state.
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Another child was missing, the GREEK coast guard said after rescuing 13 ... making the voyage from Turkey to GREEK islands ever more dangerous.
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GREECE has agreed to a bailout program of up to €86 billion ($96 billion) in loans, offered by the European Union and International Monetary Fund ...
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PETISOVCI (SLOVENIA): At 16 migrants were drowned off GREECE and Turkey as Slovenia geared up to receive thousands on migrants on Saturday.
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The GREEK Village is home to the Panhellenic Council sororities, which includes Alpha Sigma Alpha, Delta Zeta, Sigma Kappa, Alpha Sigma Tau and ...
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(Vatican Radio) Greece's Parliament Friday night passed the country's toughest austerity yet, in the hope of finding a way back to economic recovery ...
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The vote early Saturday is the first in a series of austerity measures that the Greek Parliament will be asked to approve to meet creditors’ demands.
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Oct 17 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Greek championship matches on Saturday Saturday, October 17 Platanias 4 Panthrakikos 0 Standings P W D L F ...
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Almost 400,000 people have arrived in GREECE this year, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, overwhelming the cash-strapped nation's ...
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One in three Greeks is either poor, close to poverty, or facing unemployment, according to new figures by Eurostat. The purpose of the particular survey by the European statistical authority was to determine the percentage of Europeans living in conditions of poverty and social exclusion. In Greece, 22.1 percent of the population lives in poverty,
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There's one big story at the heart of everything going on in the markets right now. It isn't China. It isn't Greece. It is related to the drop in the oil price, but isn't the oil price itself. According to Vanguard's head of quantitative equity, John Ameriks, the story is technology. Amerik's quantitative equity team manages $24 billion and covers 17 mandates for Vanguard. "What ultimately leads to growth and increased productivity are technological surprises and breakthroughs," Ameriks told Business Insider. "To the extent that things can be expected, they tend to be priced in pretty quickly. It's news. These are developments that occur that people can't predict." You might think the biggest surprise the past year has been the sharp drop in energy prices. But in Ameriks view, that story — and most market stories — are really about technology. "That drop in oil prices is a function of both changes in technology and changes in expectations for growth," he said. But "it's actually probably the technological changes and the developments in the industry that are longer-term in nature." SHALE REVOLUTION At Vanguard, Ameriks said, his team's strategy is not so much to pit one industry against another. It's more about looking within industries to identify firms that show potential. "We're not intending to try to identify big mega-trends that we can somehow always be on the right side of," he said. "What we try to do is diversify." Take the example of the energy industry. "The ways in which we extract energy — there are completely new ways for us to do that that really change the cost structure in a particular industry," Ameriks said. "That's going to matter to particular firms. In the end, it's great news for everybody — but that will drive what happens in markets." And we're going to see more of this trend. "The pace of change and the power of computing and the information that we have to work with continues to grow," Ameriks said. SEE ALSO: INVESTOR: WALL STREET BANKS WILL NEVER BE AS PROFITABLE AS THEY ONCE WERE Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Economist Jeff Sachs reveals the biggest threat to the human race
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ATHENS — Greece’s parliament has approved a new round of austerity measures — the first major test for leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after snap general elections last month, triggered by dissent over Greece’s latest bailout deal. Lawmakers early Saturday voted 154-140 in favor of the bill required for a 2 billion-euro ($2.3 billion) […] The post Parliament Passes Reform/Austerity Bill appeared first on The National Herald.
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CAMLIBEL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday inaugurated an undersea pipeline to carry fresh water from Turkey to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of ethnically split Cyprus — a project which Greek Cypriot officials have decried as a Turkish ploy to cement its grip on the island. Erdogan and other Turkish officials symbolically turned open […] The post Turkey Begins Pumping Water appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS—It was a gaffe that reignited our fears about our decision to honeymoon in GREECE. Like those fears, it turned out to be a classic case of ...
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Twelve migrants thought to be from Syria and Afghanistan, including four children and a baby, drowned off the coast of Turkey as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, the Turkish coastguard said on Saturday. Reuters television footage showed bodies covered by plastic sheeting being brought ashore on a coastguard vessel near the Turkish town of Ayvacik, a few kilometres (miles) from the Greek island of Lesbos. A coastguard official said 23 people had been rescued, some by a Turkish fishing boat.
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The GREEK coast guard says four children on a boat carrying migrants have drowned after the vessel sank off the small island of Kalolimnos in the ...
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Humorist David Sedaris, headed to Cleveland for a reading, on the Apple watch, Greek names and the endless appeal of zombies
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PETISOVCI, Slovenia (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All times local. 12:40 p.m. Croatia's interior minister says Hungary's decision to close the border with Croatia for migrants hoping to reach Western Europe won't stop the flow. The minister, Ranko Ostojic, says that "nobody can stop this flow without shooting." Ostojic said Saturday that Croatia was sending migrants to Slovenia instead and that problems could emerge only if Austria or Germany close their borders. Ostojic says that would mean "domino effect and lot of troubles for all countries." He adds "this organized system of receiving people is something that is giving a better security situation." Ostojic insists that if Croatia tried to keep the migrants in the country "they would find their own way" to leave. Nearly 190,000 people have passed through Croatia since mid-September on their way to Germany and other rich EU countries. ___ 12:15 p.m. The United Nations refugee agency believes Slovenia has the capacity to accept some 7,000 migrants coming to the country on their way toward Western Europe. UNHCR spokeswoman Caroline Van Buren said at Slovenia's border with Croatia Saturday that "all is going well" as the first groups of migrants started arriving to the small Alpine nation. The flow has turned to Slovenia after Hungary sealed its border with Croatia for migrants shortly after midnight Friday. Most of the people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia want to reach rich EU nations such as Germany. Slovenia has said it will accept migrants as long as Austria and Germany keep their borders open. Several hundred people have come so far with more expected later Saturday. ___ 12:05 p.m. Hungary says it has temporarily reinstated border controls at its frontiers with Slovenia to prevent migrants from entering the county in an unrestricted manner. The measure announced Saturday came hours after Hungary closed off its borders with Croatia, from where thousands of migrants a day were entering. Both Slovenia and Hungary are part of the European Union's Schengen zone of border free travel. Since Croatia said it would start sending migrants to the border with Slovenia, Hungary fears they could try to cross into Hungary from Slovenia on their way to Germany and other European destinations. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement that the government was defending Hungary and its citizens from the "mass wave of unidentified, uncontrolled migrants." ___ 11:55 a.m. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she won't offer "false solutions" to the migrant crisis as she faces pressure to do more to limit the influx. Merkel told Saturday's edition of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Germany can control its borders but not close them completely — "that wouldn't even succeed with a fence, as the example of Hungary shows." Thousands of new arrivals a day have been stretching Germany's capacity to house refugees and other migrants. But Merkel said she won't promise "false solutions" because they wouldn't even hold for two weeks and would create bigger disappointment that the problem hasn't been resolved. Merkel added: "I am working with all my power for sustainable solutions, and they don't depend on us Germans alone and will take time." ___ 11:25 a.m. Turkey's state-run news agency says 12 migrants have drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast in the Aegean sea. The Anadolu Agency says the Turkish Coast Guard on Saturday rescued 25 other migrants from the sea. The group was trying to reach the island the Greek island of Lesbos — an entry point for a majority of migrants making the journey from the nearby Turkish coast. There was no immediate information of the nationalities of the migrants. ___ 10:40 a.m. Amnesty International has called European Union leaders to put refugee rights above concerns to protect their borders. Amnesty's call Saturday came a day before German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to hold talks with Turkish officials on an EU plan that would give concession to Turkey in exchange for stemming the flow of migrants into EU countries. Officials say the concessions would include an aid package, easier access to EU visas for Turkish citizens and speed-up EU membership talks. Amnesty said the EU should be looking for ways to "offer safe and legal routes to refugees to reach Europe." The group said: "A deal premised on keeping refugees in Turkey fundamentally ignores both the challenges they face there and the obvious need for the EU to offer protection." ___ 10:20 a.m. The first groups of migrants have reached Slovenia's border, arriving from Croatia on buses. Migrants hoping to reach western Europe have turned that way after Hungary sealed off its territory for them. Slovenian police say five buses carrying about 300 migrants arrived Saturday to the border checkpoint at Petisovci. Spokeswoman Suzana Raus says migrants will be transferred to a migrant center near the border with Austria after they pass a registration procedure. Most migrants are expected to move on from Slovenia to Austria and further on to Germany and other more prosperous countries of Western Europe. Slovenia, a nation of 2 million, has said it wants to control the number of people coming to its territory from Croatia. It has beefed up border police and suspended regular train traffic with Croatia. ___ 9:45 a.m. Croatia's president has demanded strict control over the country's border with Serbia after Hungary closed its own border with Croatia to migrants hoping to reach Western Europe. Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic late Friday urged the government to direct all migrant traffic to official border crossings rather than allow them to enter through illegal routes. Some 180,000 people have passed through Croatia since mid-September. The country was expected to redirect the migrant flow to Slovenia. Grabar Kitarovic says Croatia should only allow in only the migrants who are certain to leave the country, signaling fears that thousands of migrants could get stuck in Croatia if Slovenia slows down the flow. ___ 9:20 a.m. Thousands of migrants are pouring into Croatia from Serbia as the influx of people hoping to reach Western Europe continued despite Hungary's decision to block them from its territory. Shortly after midnight Friday, Hungarian police in full gear pulled a barbed-wire fence over a passage on the Croatian border where some 140,000 migrants have passed since mid-September. Croatia has said it will now redirect the migrants toward Slovenia, its other neighbor. First groups are expected to arrive at the border later on Saturday. Slovenia has suspended regular train traffic with Croatia in anticipation of the influx. Authorities in Slovenia have said they would accept controlled numbers of migrants as long as its neighbors Austria and Germany keep their borders open. Slovenia's national security council meets on the issue Saturday. Join the conversation about this story »
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Twelve migrants drowned today when their boat sank off the Turkish coast as they were seeking to reach Greece, while around 25 others were rescued, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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Officially, the hilltop Spartachori is the main hub of life locally, offering tourists a very hot climb up steep steps, charming GREEK homes covered in ...
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Most of the members of the GREEK team, “who are earning salaries that are considerably higher than the market average,” belong to one of the age ...
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Four more children have been added to the death toll of refugees who are losing their lives tragically on an ongoing struggle to cross the waters from Turkey to the nearby Greek islands. A rubber boat carrying 17 people including a smuggler capsized near the islet of Kalolimnos, near Kalymnos island. As a result, three
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Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias criticized opposition parties for revealing the content of a letter sent to them by the government asking for their opinion on the name of FYROM issue. Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos revealed the content of the letter that Kotzias has labelled as classified. The foreign minister said that discussions in the
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Thousands of austerity measures, dramatic cuts in incomes, incredible hikes in taxes. Five and a half years in deep recession. Three bailout agreements. And where do Greeks stand now? On top of the Eurozone when it comes to poverty. More than one out of three Greeks, that is “36% of […]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday inaugurated an undersea pipeline to carry fresh water from Turkey to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of ethnically split Cyprus — a project which Greek Cypriot officials have decried as a Turkish ploy to cement its grip on the island.
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If there is one shop in Greece that will never go out of business, even in dire financial times, it is the local bakery. Bread has held a prominent place ...
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Greek Legislators voted in the Greek parliament about the passing of a new bill that imposes new austerity measures.
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PETISOVCI, Slovenia (AP) — Hungary shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of migrants on Saturday, adding another hurdle in their frantic flight from wars and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia toward what they hope is a better life in Western Europe. The closure prompted Croatia to redirect thousands of people — including women and small children soaked in cold rain — further west toward its border with Slovenia, the small European Union-member state which has no capacity to process large numbers wishing to head toward Austria and Germany. This could leave thousands stranded in Croatia and further east and south in Serbia and Macedonia. Several buses packed with migrants arrived in the Slovenian border town of Petisovci early Saturday from Croatia. Police spokeswoman Suzana Raus said that after processing, most of them will be transferred toward the Austrian border. "We have been in cold since two in the morning in Serbia," said Omar Thaqfa, 33, from Mosul in Iraq. "We were sitting in the street. Very cold. Inshallah, I am going to Germany." Slovenia has said it would beef up border controls and create entry points for migrants to manage the influx, but would keep accepting migrants as long as Austria and Germany kept their borders open. Croatia has said it will close its border with Serbia if Slovenia does the same with Croatia. Migrants had been coming through Croatia to get to Hungary and then further west. But Hungary blocked that route after midnight when police in full gear pulled a barbed-wire fence over a passage on the border with Croatia where some 140,000 migrants have passed since mid-September. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced the decision to close the border after a meeting of the national security Cabinet on Friday. "The Hungarian government has taken the steps ... to protect the internal European freedoms and the security of the citizens of Hungary and Europe," government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said minutes after the shutdown. Hungary decided to order the border clampdown after EU leaders who met Thursday in Brussels failed to agree on a plan backed by Hungary to send EU forces to block migrants from reaching Greece. "We know that this is not the best, but only the second-best solution," Szijjarto said. He said normal border checkpoints with Croatia would remain open, though inspections will be tightened. "We will introduce stricter controls to be able to block border crossings done illegally," Szijjarto said. Although Croatia is also a member of the European Union, unlike Hungary it is not part of the Schengen zone of passport-free travel. Slovenia is in the Schengen zone. Over 383,000 migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have entered Hungary this year, nearly all passing through on their way to Germany and other destinations further west in the EU. The country clamped down on its border with Serbia with a similar razor wire fence on Sept. 15 and since then migrants have been taking a detour through Croatia to reach Hungary. "We have every hope that the introduction of the border closure (with Croatia) will have the same positive effects as what we experienced on the border with Serbia," said Gyorgy Bakondi, senior adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. ___ Associated Press reporters Pablo Gorondi in Budapest, Hungary, and Dusan Stojanovic and Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed. Join the conversation about this story »
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BERKASOVO, Serbia (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All times local. 11:25 a.m. Turkey's state-run news agency says 12 migrants have drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast in the Aegean sea. The Anadolu Agency says the Turkish Coast Guard on Saturday rescued 25 other migrants from the sea. The group was trying to reach the island the Greek island of Lesbos — an entry point for a majority of migrants making the journey from the nearby Turkish coast. There was no immediate information of the nationalities of the migrants. ___ 10:40 a.m. Amnesty International has called European Union leaders to put refugee rights above concerns to protect their borders. Amnesty's call Saturday came a day before German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to hold talks with Turkish officials on an EU plan that would give concession to Turkey in exchange for stemming the flow of migrants into EU countries. Officials say the concessions would include an aid package, easier access to EU visas for Turkish citizens and speed-up EU membership talks. Amnesty said the EU should be looking for ways to "offer safe and legal routes to refugees to reach Europe." The group said: "A deal premised on keeping refugees in Turkey fundamentally ignores both the challenges they face there and the obvious need for the EU to offer protection." ___ 10:20 a.m. The first groups of migrants have reached Slovenia's border, arriving from Croatia on buses. Migrants hoping to reach western Europe have turned that way after Hungary sealed off its territory for them. Slovenian police say five buses carrying about 300 migrants arrived Saturday to the border checkpoint at Petisovci. Spokeswoman Suzana Raus says migrants will be transferred to a migrant center near the border with Austria after they pass a registration procedure. Most migrants are expected to move on from Slovenia to Austria and further on to Germany and other more prosperous countries of Western Europe. Slovenia, a nation of 2 million, has said it wants to control the number of people coming to its territory from Croatia. It has beefed up border police and suspended regular train traffic with Croatia. ___ 9:45 a.m. Croatia's president has demanded strict control over the country's border with Serbia after Hungary closed its own border with Croatia to migrants hoping to reach Western Europe. Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic late Friday urged the government to direct all migrant traffic to official border crossings rather than allow them to enter through illegal routes. Some 180,000 people have passed through Croatia since mid-September. The country was expected to redirect the migrant flow to Slovenia. Grabar Kitarovic says Croatia should only allow in only the migrants who are certain to leave the country, signaling fears that thousands of migrants could get stuck in Croatia if Slovenia slows down the flow. ___ 9:20 a.m. Thousands of migrants are pouring into Croatia from Serbia as the influx of people hoping to reach Western Europe continued despite Hungary's decision to block them from its territory. Shortly after midnight Friday, Hungarian police in full gear pulled a barbed-wire fence over a passage on the Croatian border where some 140,000 migrants have passed since mid-September. Croatia has said it will now redirect the migrants toward Slovenia, its other neighbor. First groups are expected to arrive at the border later on Saturday. Slovenia has suspended regular train traffic with Croatia in anticipation of the influx. Authorities in Slovenia have said they would accept controlled numbers of migrants as long as its neighbors Austria and Germany keep their borders open. Slovenia's national security council meets on the issue Saturday. Join the conversation about this story »
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The deaths off Greece come as Hungary closes its border with Croatia, forcing migrants to travel through Slovenia instead.
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Twelve migrants drowned Saturday when their boat sank off the Turkish coast as they were seeking to reach Greece, while around 25 others were rescued, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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Almost 400,000 people have arrived in GREECE this year, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, overwhelming the cash-strapped nation's ...
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A 65-year-old Iraqi grandmother drowned at the bottom of a migrant boat after the boat filled with water whilst crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
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The Latest: Turkey reports 12 migrants drown, 25 rescued in attempt to reach Greece
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A WOMAN and three children have drowned and another child is missing after their rubber dinghy capsized off a GREEK island late last night. By Tom ...
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The GREEK coast guard said it had rescued 13 people and was still searching waters for a missing fourth child. Thousands of desperate refugees are ...
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Four people - three of them children - have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank in the sea off GREECE. 13-people are still missing after the ...
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… for a two-billion-euro installment from Greece’s international lenders. But not … an anti-austerity rally outside the Greek parliament in Syntagma Square. Stavros … policies.” The latest measures are Greece’s strictest since the crisis …
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