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12 migrants drown off Turkish coast

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

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 

Despite cold, record-breaking numbers of refugees arrive in Greece

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, 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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Europe 

Refugee women seeking safety in Europe risk sexual abuse, violence

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 Lisa Schlein of VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

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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Europe 

Winter weather raises fears as thousands of refugees head to Europe

January 21, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

At the migrant and refugee registration center in Presevo, Serbia, a small girl wearing a pink coat screams with delight

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian police ‘abuse asylum-seekers, migrants, force them back to Turkey’ – HRW

January 20, 2016January 29, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Serbia, Turkey

Bulgarian law enforcement officials summarily return asylum seekers and migrants to Turkey, often after stealing their belongings and subjecting them

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Europe 

Doctors Without Borders blasts EU migration policies

January 19, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian FM Mitov backs tougher measures against economic migrants arriving in the EU

January 19, 2016January 29, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov supports tougher measures against economic migrants arriving in the EU, he told reporters after an

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Europe 

Aid agencies face uphill battle in Europe migrant crisis

January 19, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews 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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Europe 

EU calls for ‘political solutions’ in dealing with migrant crisis

January 17, 2016January 29, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management has called for “political solutions” in dealing with “the root causes”

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