Refugees in Greek camp fight anxiety, illness, boredom
For the refugees camped out on the Greek-Macedonian border, the day begins with hope – as it has every day
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Author: Jamie Dettmer of VOANews
Refugees caught in tide of European history
Syrian and Iraqi war refugees are sleeping by railroad tracks in northern Greece hoping to be allowed to travel onward
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Refugees ask, ‘Why don’t the Europeans want us?’
As the sun rose over northern Greece Saturday and the damp mist slid away, refugees, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, lit
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Syrian, Iraqi refugees in Greece: We won’t go back
Hungry people are angry people. In the makeshift tent camp just meters from Macedonia, here on the Greek side of
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Under pressure, Europe sees return of nation states
A European Union founding father, Jean Monnet, once claimed, “Crises are the great unifier.” For Europeans that is not proving
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Fears mount of resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe
Seventy-one years ago, Soviet troops entered the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi extermination camp near Krakow, Poland, liberating the remaining 7,000 prisoners,
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Hungary’s Orbán: Autocrat or misunderstood provocateur?
They endured snow and cold. A few hundred protesters turned out here in Hungary’s capital in a show of opposition
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European youth turn against immigration
Opinions of young Europeans appear to be hardening toward immigration. Ask them about their lives and talk quickly turns to
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Europeans back tougher action against IS
Support is growing in European Union countries for more military action against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq
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