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Rescuers search for survivors after powerful earthquake hits Turkey and Greece
Rescue teams are working through the night searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece, killing at least 14 people.
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Fire at Lesbos refugee camp – the families left homeless again
Earlier this month the largest refugee camp in Europe on the island of Lesbos burnt to the ground – leaving more than 12,000 people homeless.
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Greece and Turkey accuse each other of breaking the international law of the sea
Fossil fuels might be going out of fashion, but a dispute over the right to drill for natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean has provoked fears that two NATO allies could come to blows.
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Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia holds first Muslim prayers in 86 years
President Erdogan of Turkey has joined huge crowds in Istanbul, for the first Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia since the 1,500-year-old former church was turned back into a mosque.
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British woman found guilty of making false rape claim in Ayia Napa
A British woman is facing jail in Cyprus after being found guilty of lying about being raped by a group of Israeli men.
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They fled the Nazis as kids – now they’re helping Europe’s refugees
The migration crisis is shaping politics and influencing elections across Europe, and although the number of people seeking a new life on the continent has slowed, people are still coming by the boatload. One of the countries under the biggest strain is Greece. They’ve had over 500 new arrivals on their islands since Friday. We…
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Lesbos: Dealing with a migrant crisis
60 migrants have been rescued from the sea near Libya by a Spanish aid boat – after they were spotted in a patched up rubber dinghy. But Italy’s hard line interior minister immediately declared he’d refuse permission for them to land there – saying “they can forget about arriving in an Italian port”. A hundred…
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Migrants dying in Europe’s severe cold
It’s across countries such as Greece, Italy, Serbia and Turkey where the cold snap is causing the most suffering.
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Migrants suffer in freezing temperatures
Thousands of migrants and refugees still living in makeshift camps across Europe are at risk of freezing to death, according to aid agencies.
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Greece: thousands of migrants moved from border camp
Greek riot police are evacuating thousands of migrants from a camp on the Macedonia border where they have been stranded for months.
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Migrants stranded in Greece cross Macedonia border
Migrants and refugees who were stranded at a camp on the Greek border cross a river near the frontier, with hundreds making it through a fence to Macedonia.
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Migrants die as boat sinks off Turkish coast
More than 20 refugees drown while trying to reach Greece, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey to discuss how to respond to the latest migrant surge caused by fighting in Syria.
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Refugees and migrants blocked at Macedonia border
As temperatures plummet and winter approaches, thousands of migrants and refugees are finding it harder to travel to Europe. Macedonia says it will turn away migrants who are not from war zones.
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Europe begins to resettle Greek asylum-seekers
Six families from Iraq and Syria are the first asylum-seekers to be relocated from Greece as part of an EU-funded resettlement scheme.
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Refugees and migrants travel two billion miles in 2015
Migrants and refugees travelling to Europe to apply for asylum in 2015 have collectively travelled two billion miles, Channel 4 News can reveal.