European mass migration crisis

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, shakes hands with Germany's Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, following their meeting to discuss cooperation on migration management in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Cavusoglu, Seehofer and European Commissioner for Immigration Dimitris Avramopoulos later met for breakfast and further discussed the migrants issue. (Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP, Pool)
October 04, 2019 - 4:27 am

Turkey: Europe must cooperate, not blame Ankara for migrants

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has called on European nations to work with Ankara on solving the refugee crisis instead of blaming it for a rise in migrant flows to Europe. Mevlut Cavusoglu made the comments on Friday after a meeting with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and...
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Cars drive past billboards of Portuguese Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa, left, and Left Bloc leader Catarina Martins, in Lisbon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Portugal will hold a general election on Oct. 6 in which voters will choose members of the next Portuguese parliament. Slogan on the Socialist's billboard reads in Portuguese, "It's your vote that decides". (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
October 04, 2019 - 3:17 am

Elections mark out Portugal as European political curiosity

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's general election this weekend makes the country look like Europe's odd man out. While, across the European Union, radical new parties are reshaping the political landscape and Socialist parties have lost ground in recent years, in Portugal political tradition is...
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Refugees and migrants disembark from a ferry at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Migrants and refugees arrive at the port of Piraeus from the island of Lesbos as authorities have accelerated efforts to move thousands of migrants deemed to be vulnerable from the overcrowded Moria camp to camps on the mainland following a deadly fire. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
October 01, 2019 - 8:38 am

Migrants stage peaceful protest at main Greek camp

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Migrants at an overcrowded camp on the island of Lesbos have staged a peaceful protest to demand better living conditions and the transfer to the mainland. Several hundred people took part in the three-hour protest Tuesday, sitting outside the Moria refugee camp. No arrests...
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September 30, 2019 - 12:09 pm

8 Germans on trial over plan to start violent uprising

BERLIN (AP) — Eight suspected far-right extremists went on trial Monday in Germany, accused of planning to start a violent uprising in response to a stabbing in the eastern city of Chemnitz last year. The men, aged between 21 and 32, appeared before a regional court in Dresden on charges of forming...
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Refugees and Migrants carry their belongings as they disembark on a ferry with destination the port of Piraeus, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. Authorities have been moving hundreds of migrants and refugees deemed to be vulnerable from the overcrowded Moria camp in Lesbos island to camps on the mainland. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
September 30, 2019 - 10:39 am

After deadly fire, Greece to move migrants from packed camps

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Signaling a shift in policy, Greece's government said Monday it would accelerate efforts to move thousands of refugees and migrants from Aegean Sea islands to the mainland following a deadly fire at the country's largest camp on the island of Lesbos. The decision was announced...
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September 29, 2019 - 11:47 am

The Latest: Migrants in Greece set fires, clash with police

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on migrants in Greece (all times local): 7:35 p.m. Migrants protesting at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have set fires both inside and outside the camp, and have clashed with police. Police and local authorities say there are unconfirmed reports of two...
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September 29, 2019 - 11:38 am

The Latest: Migrants in Greece set fires, clash with police

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on migrants in Greece (all times local): 7:35 p.m. Migrants protesting a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have set fires both inside and outside the camp, and have clashed with police. Police and local authorities say there are unconfirmed reports of two...
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Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the occasion of the Migrant and Refugee World Day, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
September 29, 2019 - 5:54 am

Pope decries world's indifference to migrants and refugees

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday decried "the culture of comfort" that leads to indifference in the face of a global migration and refugee crisis. The pope who has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy spoke during a Mass for the World Day for Migrants and Refugees. "We cannot...
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September 29, 2019 - 3:04 am

Car carrying 12 migrants hits Greek man's car, kills him

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say a car carrying 12 migrants has run through a red light and crashed into a vehicle coming from a side street, killing its driver, a 64-year-old Greek man. Police say one migrant was seriously injured and three others were slightly injured in the accident...
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A patrol boat uses a light to spot a dinghy with refugees and migrants between Turkey and Skala Sykaminias village, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. More than 2,300 migrants reached Lesbos last week, the highest rate of arrival this year. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
September 27, 2019 - 10:52 am

Greece: 7 migrants die when boat sinks in Aegean Sea

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A boat carrying migrants sank in the eastern Aegean Sea, killing seven people on Friday, Greek authorities said. The boat, which had been traveling from Turkey, capsized near the small Greek island of Inousses and 12 others were rescued, the coast guard said. Two bodies were...
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