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Fifteen Migrants Died off Greece

Fifteen migrants die after boat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off Chios, coast guard says

Fifteen migrants died after their boat collided with a coast guard vessel, capsized and sank off the Greek island of Chios in the Aegean Sea late on Tuesday, the Greek coast guard said, in one of Greece’s worst shipwrecks in years.

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Fifteen migrants died off Greece after boat collision with coast guard

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Fifteen migrants die after boat collides with Greek coast guard vessel off island of Chios

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Collision with Greek coast guard boat leaves 15 migrants dead

At least 14 migrants have died after a speedboat carrying them collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard vessel off the coast of the island of Chios late on Tuesday.

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Greece blames smugglers over migrant deaths but early accounts have been questioned before

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Collision between Greek coastguard patrol and migrant boat kills 14

World Socialist Web Site

Tougher asylum law in Greece criminalises refugees

Refugees will in future be treated like criminals in Greece. That is the essence of the tougher asylum law that the Greek government, under the right-wing New Democracy (ND), pushed through parliament a week ago. Those seeking protection who are denied ...

UNHCR

UNHCR flags concerns over refugee sites in northern Greece

IDOMENI, Greece, May 27 (UNHCR) – The UN Refugee Agency said today it was “seriously concerned” over what it termed sub-standard conditions at several sites in northern Greece where refugees and migrants were evacuated this week from the makeshift ...

Anadolu Agency

UN refugee agency calls for transparency over deadly incident off Greece’s Chios island

Agency urges stronger efforts to prevent loss of life at sea after at least 15 people died in latest Aegean incident - Anadolu Ajansı

Politico Europe

Greece pushes to recruit tens of thousands more Asian migrant workers

Aware that its drive for foreign workers will play badly with some supporters, the government is simultaneously penalizing migrants who entered Greece illegally.

Reuters

Refugees in Greece demand transfer to Germany, start hunger strike

ATHENS (Reuters) - A group of mainly Syrian women and children who have been stranded in Greece pitched tents opposite parliament in Athens on Wednesday in a protest against delays in reuniting with relatives in Germany. Some of the refugees, who say they ...

UNHCR

UNHCR aids refugees on the Greek Islands

GENEVA, Nov 6 (UNHCR) - UN refugee agency staff have worked throughout the week to provide emergency shelter and support to thousands of refugees, migrants and the local host communities on the Greek Islands. An estimated 20,000 refugees and migrants are ...