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EU Says Nations Can Return Migrants To Greece From March
The EU recommended on Thursday that member states resume sending asylum seekers back to Greece from March next year, after transfers were halted for five years because of poor conditions there.
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Pope Makes Provocative Trip To Greece As Europe Deports Migrants
Pope Francis travelled to Greece today for a brief but provocative visit to meet with refugees at a detention centre as the European Union implements a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey.
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Greece To Send Some 750 Migrants To Turkey In EU Deal Launch: Report
Greek officials on Saturday declined to comment on a report it will send some 750 migrants back to Turkey from Monday to kick off a controversial EU readmissions deal.
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Migrants Flood To Greek Camp After Rumours Border Will Be Forced Open
Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumours that the closed frontier would be forced open.
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Greece Delays Sending Refugees Back To Turkey Under EU Deal
Greece will not be able to start sending refugees back to Turkey from Sunday, the government said, as the country struggles to implement a key deal aimed at easing Europe's migrant crisis.
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EU, Turkey Strike 'Historic' Deal To Send Back Migrants
Turkish and EU leaders agreed a "historic" deal to curb the huge flow of asylum seekers to Europe, which will see all migrants arriving in Greece being sent back to Turkey from Sunday.
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Migrants To Be Returned From Greece To Turkey From Sunday: Czech PM
All migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey from Sunday will be sent back as part of a new deal sealed at a Brussels summit Friday, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.
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Macedonia Sends Over 1,000 Migrants Back To Greece
Some 1,500 migrants who managed to cross into Macedonia, despite the border being closed to them for a week, have been sent back to Greece by Macedonian troops, officials said Tuesday.
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Smugglers Prey On Migrants Desperate To Find Back Doors to Europe
Shortly after landing on the Greek island of Lesbos in a waterlogged dinghy from Turkey, Rahin Salami, an Afghan citizen hoping to reach Germany, boarded a ferry for the port of Piraeus, near Athens. Halfway through the ride, he later recounted, a man in a black jacket approached.
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Greece Seeks To Stem Migrant Flow From Islands To Mainland
Greece asked its passenger ferry companies and travel agencies today to cut back on bringing migrants and refugees from frontline islands to the mainland and said its own chartered ships would stay put for a few days.
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At least 35 Migrants Drown Trying To Reach Greece
He looks peacefully asleep. But the boy, lying on his back on a rocky Turkish beach, is dead - and a soul-searing reminder that Europe's migrant crisis keeps destroying lives and families by the day.
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Pakistan Rejects 30 Deportees From Greece, Sends Back Plane
Pakistan refused to allow 30 migrants deported from Greece to leave a plane at Islamabad today, a week after talks with the European Union to settle a dispute over forced repatriations.
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European Union Presses Greece over Migrants, Weighs Schengen Threat
Greece hit back today at threats from some EU states to suspend it from the Schengen zone of open border travel because of its failure to control large numbers of migrants entering Europe.
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Berlin Backs Athens Over Migrant Influx as Boat Toll Rises
Germany on Thursday pledged to support Greece in dealing with the "extraordinary burden" of migrants landing on its shores every day, as the death toll from the latest boat sinkings rose to 27.
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Fleeing a Crisis, Greek Migrants Flock Back To Australia
Welfare groups estimate between 10,000 and 20,000 Greek nationals have come to Australia since mid-2013, the majority of them dual nationals or with family ties to Australia.
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EU Says Nations Can Return Migrants To Greece From March
The EU recommended on Thursday that member states resume sending asylum seekers back to Greece from March next year, after transfers were halted for five years because of poor conditions there.
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Pope Makes Provocative Trip To Greece As Europe Deports Migrants
Pope Francis travelled to Greece today for a brief but provocative visit to meet with refugees at a detention centre as the European Union implements a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey.
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Greece To Send Some 750 Migrants To Turkey In EU Deal Launch: Report
Greek officials on Saturday declined to comment on a report it will send some 750 migrants back to Turkey from Monday to kick off a controversial EU readmissions deal.
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Migrants Flood To Greek Camp After Rumours Border Will Be Forced Open
Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumours that the closed frontier would be forced open.
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Greece Delays Sending Refugees Back To Turkey Under EU Deal
Greece will not be able to start sending refugees back to Turkey from Sunday, the government said, as the country struggles to implement a key deal aimed at easing Europe's migrant crisis.
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EU, Turkey Strike 'Historic' Deal To Send Back Migrants
Turkish and EU leaders agreed a "historic" deal to curb the huge flow of asylum seekers to Europe, which will see all migrants arriving in Greece being sent back to Turkey from Sunday.
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Migrants To Be Returned From Greece To Turkey From Sunday: Czech PM
All migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey from Sunday will be sent back as part of a new deal sealed at a Brussels summit Friday, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.
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Macedonia Sends Over 1,000 Migrants Back To Greece
Some 1,500 migrants who managed to cross into Macedonia, despite the border being closed to them for a week, have been sent back to Greece by Macedonian troops, officials said Tuesday.
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Smugglers Prey On Migrants Desperate To Find Back Doors to Europe
Shortly after landing on the Greek island of Lesbos in a waterlogged dinghy from Turkey, Rahin Salami, an Afghan citizen hoping to reach Germany, boarded a ferry for the port of Piraeus, near Athens. Halfway through the ride, he later recounted, a man in a black jacket approached.
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Greece Seeks To Stem Migrant Flow From Islands To Mainland
Greece asked its passenger ferry companies and travel agencies today to cut back on bringing migrants and refugees from frontline islands to the mainland and said its own chartered ships would stay put for a few days.
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At least 35 Migrants Drown Trying To Reach Greece
He looks peacefully asleep. But the boy, lying on his back on a rocky Turkish beach, is dead - and a soul-searing reminder that Europe's migrant crisis keeps destroying lives and families by the day.
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Pakistan Rejects 30 Deportees From Greece, Sends Back Plane
Pakistan refused to allow 30 migrants deported from Greece to leave a plane at Islamabad today, a week after talks with the European Union to settle a dispute over forced repatriations.
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European Union Presses Greece over Migrants, Weighs Schengen Threat
Greece hit back today at threats from some EU states to suspend it from the Schengen zone of open border travel because of its failure to control large numbers of migrants entering Europe.
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Berlin Backs Athens Over Migrant Influx as Boat Toll Rises
Germany on Thursday pledged to support Greece in dealing with the "extraordinary burden" of migrants landing on its shores every day, as the death toll from the latest boat sinkings rose to 27.
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Fleeing a Crisis, Greek Migrants Flock Back To Australia
Welfare groups estimate between 10,000 and 20,000 Greek nationals have come to Australia since mid-2013, the majority of them dual nationals or with family ties to Australia.
