12 migrants drown off Turkish coast
Twelve migrants lost their lives off the Turkish coast, after a boat taking them to the Greek islands capsized Thursday
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Europe migrant crisis
Despite cold, record-breaking numbers of refugees arrive in Greece
As a crowded rubber boat approached the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, aid workers waved and gave the roughly
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Refugee women seeking safety in Europe risk sexual abuse, violence
The U.N. warns that refugee women and children seeking safety in Europe are at great risk of sexual abuse and
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Winter weather raises fears as thousands of refugees head to Europe
At the migrant and refugee registration center in Presevo, Serbia, a small girl wearing a pink coat screams with delight
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Bulgarian police ‘abuse asylum-seekers, migrants, force them back to Turkey’ – HRW
Bulgarian law enforcement officials summarily return asylum seekers and migrants to Turkey, often after stealing their belongings and subjecting them
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Doctors Without Borders blasts EU migration policies
Humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has denounced Europe’s migration policy of deterrence in 2015 as a “catastrophic
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Bulgarian FM Mitov backs tougher measures against economic migrants arriving in the EU
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov supports tougher measures against economic migrants arriving in the EU, he told reporters after an
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Aid agencies face uphill battle in Europe migrant crisis
Persecution, conflict and poverty forced an unprecedented 1 million people to flee from Africa and the Middle East to Europe
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EU calls for ‘political solutions’ in dealing with migrant crisis
The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management has called for “political solutions” in dealing with “the root causes”
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