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Youthful Immigrant Lifes In Greece Gets Taste Of Art And Sport
Jawad Ahmadi, an 18-year-old Afghan, reached the island of Lesbos a year ago with his older brother and cousin, believing Greece would be just a temporary stop on his way to Germany.
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59 Rescued From Migrant Dinghy Off Greek Island
Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.
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Sailboat With 67 Migrants Found By Greece's Cyclades Islands
Greek authorities say the country's coast guard has picked up 67 migrants found hiding in a sailboat sailing across the Aegean Sea.
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Greece's Lesbos 'Near Explosion' With Over 15,000 Refugees: Minister
The Greek island of Lesbos is "on the verge of explosion" with violence erupting as the more than 15,000 mainly Syrian refugees push local resources to the limit, the immigration minister said Monday.
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'We Have No Food, No Water,' Immigrants Stranded in Athens Say
Shading himself from the scorching sun in a busy Athens square was a Syrian refugee named Haisam, one of 800 to 1,000 who ended up in the Greek capital on Thursday, stranded in a recession-hit city not equipped to receive him.
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Greece: Migrant Boat Sinks, At Least One Dead
Greek authorities say at least one person has died after a boat with dozens of immigrants, who were trying to enter the country illegally, caught fire and sank in the eastern Aegean Sea.
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Migrant Boat Sinks in Greece; Two Dead, 20 Missing
Greek authorities say at least two people have drowned and about a further 20 are missing after a boat carrying immigrants trying to enter the country illegally sank off the Aegean Sea island of Samos.
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Suspected Greek neo-Nazis get life for murdering Pakistani
Two suspected members of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn were sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison over the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani immigrant last year, a judicial source said.
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Greece detains 6,000 during raids on immigrants
Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive to combat what a government official compared to a prehistoric invasion.
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Soccer team from Senegal disappears in France
An entire soccer team from Senegal is reportedly on the run from French immigration officers after arriving in Le Havre city, near Paris, for a friendly tournament.
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Attacks on immigrants on the rise in Greece
A wave of violent attacks against immigrants by suspected right-wing extremists has put Muslims and the police on alert in rundown parts of Athens with burgeoning migrant populations.Immigrants have been beaten and stabbed near central squares, and several makeshift mosques have been burned and vandalized. In the most grievous attack, at the end of...
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Youthful Immigrant Lifes In Greece Gets Taste Of Art And Sport
Jawad Ahmadi, an 18-year-old Afghan, reached the island of Lesbos a year ago with his older brother and cousin, believing Greece would be just a temporary stop on his way to Germany.
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59 Rescued From Migrant Dinghy Off Greek Island
Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.
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Sailboat With 67 Migrants Found By Greece's Cyclades Islands
Greek authorities say the country's coast guard has picked up 67 migrants found hiding in a sailboat sailing across the Aegean Sea.
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Greece's Lesbos 'Near Explosion' With Over 15,000 Refugees: Minister
The Greek island of Lesbos is "on the verge of explosion" with violence erupting as the more than 15,000 mainly Syrian refugees push local resources to the limit, the immigration minister said Monday.
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'We Have No Food, No Water,' Immigrants Stranded in Athens Say
Shading himself from the scorching sun in a busy Athens square was a Syrian refugee named Haisam, one of 800 to 1,000 who ended up in the Greek capital on Thursday, stranded in a recession-hit city not equipped to receive him.
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Greece: Migrant Boat Sinks, At Least One Dead
Greek authorities say at least one person has died after a boat with dozens of immigrants, who were trying to enter the country illegally, caught fire and sank in the eastern Aegean Sea.
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Migrant Boat Sinks in Greece; Two Dead, 20 Missing
Greek authorities say at least two people have drowned and about a further 20 are missing after a boat carrying immigrants trying to enter the country illegally sank off the Aegean Sea island of Samos.
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Suspected Greek neo-Nazis get life for murdering Pakistani
Two suspected members of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn were sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison over the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani immigrant last year, a judicial source said.
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Greece detains 6,000 during raids on immigrants
Authorities in Greece are rounding up thousands of suspected illegal immigrants in a large-scale deportation drive to combat what a government official compared to a prehistoric invasion.
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Soccer team from Senegal disappears in France
An entire soccer team from Senegal is reportedly on the run from French immigration officers after arriving in Le Havre city, near Paris, for a friendly tournament.
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Attacks on immigrants on the rise in Greece
A wave of violent attacks against immigrants by suspected right-wing extremists has put Muslims and the police on alert in rundown parts of Athens with burgeoning migrant populations.Immigrants have been beaten and stabbed near central squares, and several makeshift mosques have been burned and vandalized. In the most grievous attack, at the end of...
