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'Stay in Syria, no matter how difficult it is': Devastated refugee implores would-be migrants not to risk perilous crossing after his wife and SEVEN children died

11/12/15 03:05

Ali Al Sahau lost his entire family when his vessel sunk in the Aegean sea near Greece while trying to escape his war-torn country for a new life in Europe. Smugglers told him they wouldn't need life jackets because the boat was safe and the crossing would take just 15 minutes. He said: 'Don't take the risk. I took my family out of Syria to escape the killing. My children could have had a future in Europe. But now I've lost my family, my world.' ...read

Amal Clooney is let go by the Greek government from her role advising it on the return of the Elgin Marbles from Britain to Athens

10/12/15 15:41

The British barrister was hired by Greece to advise the state ahead of a possible court case aimed at forcing the British Museum to give up the statues.

If you're not from a war-torn country, you're not coming in: Greek police forced to remove 1,000 migrants from the border after Macedonia introduces filter system

10/12/15 00:46

Hundreds of migrants, mostly Moroccans and Pakistanis, were led away to buses, ten of which left for Athens after Macedonia refused to let them into the country.

Paris terror attacks mastermind could have been caught in Athens a YEAR ago: Greece admits they were on ringleader’s tail but he slipped through the net

08/12/15 21:03

A Belgian anti-terrorism source told the BBC the Athens operation had planned to target Abdelhamid Abaaoud, pictured, in January of this year but that the plan failed.

Macedonia tightens its borders as authorities restrict the flow of migrants entering Europe from Greece

06/12/15 13:44

Greek authorities say more than 2,000 migrants have crossed into Macedonia from Greece, a day after the border closed down following clashes between refugees and riot police.

Moroccan migrant is electrocuted after climbing onto train carriage at Greece's border with Macedonia to evade new fence

03/12/15 15:57

The man is believed to have climbed on top of the carriage before he accidentally touched the high-power electrical lines on top of the stationery train at the Greek border.

Greece says calls to eject it from the Schengen zone because of its weak border controls are unfair... as Hungary says Germany is behind pact to bring 500,000 Syrians from Turkey

02/12/15 15:54

Ioannis Mouzalas, responding to media reports that Greece has been threatened with ejection from the Schengen zone, said the accusations are a mixture of 'reality and myth'.

Rise of the mesh curtain: Tensions flare at Macedonian border as soldiers start to build three-metre high fence to keep migrants out

30/11/15 07:27

A group of 250 enraged migrants attacked police along Macedonia's border with Greece on Saturday afternoon, just hours after soldiers started driving three metre poles into the ground for the fence.

Teenage prostitutes selling sex for the price of a sandwich as Greece's crippling recession pushes prices to an all-time low

28/11/15 16:43

Greece's crippling debt crisis has meant that more women in the European country are selling sex with prices tumbling as low as the cost of a sandwich.

Chaos across Europe as migrants struggling to cross borders protest in Macedonia and face freezing temperatures in Germany and Serbia

22/11/15 20:41

Dozens of migrants have been protesting at the border between Greece and Macedonia as conditions on the Balkan borders worsened as temperatures plummeted with the first signs of snow.

Fingerprints now reveal that TWO of the Paris suicide bombers had entered Europe through Greece a month before the attacks

21/11/15 19:03

Three jihadists blew themselves up outside the ground, as part of a number of attacks in Paris which killed 130 people. Two of the bombers were Ahmed al Mohammad and Bilal Hafdi.

Sick game of pass the parcel: Horrifying video appears to show Greek coast guard deliberately sinking life raft carrying dozens of Syrian migrants so they'll be picked up by Turkish instead

21/11/15 17:50

Footage recorded on November 12 by Turkish rescuers shows a crewman on a Greek-marked coast guard ship jabbing a pole into an inflatable ship in the Aegean Sea.

Caught on camera: The moment an earthquake DESTROYS one of the world's most beautiful beaches

20/11/15 15:13

An earthquake, which was marked as 6.1 'strong' on the Richter Scale, brought surrounding cliffs down onto the Egremni Beach in Lefkada - which is rated the island's number one tourist attraction.

Pictured: The passports five Syrian men stole in Greece before 'attempting to travel to the U.S.' via Honduras

19/11/15 11:00

Five Syrian men believed to be making their way to America have been arrested after landing at Toncontín International Airport in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

The end of Schengen as we know it? Greece, Spain and Italy will be kicked out of the current zone along with some Eastern European countries as free travel is blamed for migrant crisis

19/11/15 06:25

The borders of the passport-free Schengen Zone are set to be redrawn in the wake of the migrant crisis. Eastern European countries, Italy, Greece and Spain could be kicked out.

They really DO think they've got money to burn! Rioters firebomb Greece's central bank as left-wing group marches through Athens to protest austerity cuts

12/11/15 21:50

A group of youths, who broke off from the 25,000 protesters marching against austerity cuts in Athens, threw petrol bombs at the police and Greece's central bank building.

Chaos in Cyprus as migrants threaten suicide, burn tents and clash with police as they complain about their treatment after arriving at British military base

05/11/15 12:32

A video filmed at the UK army base in Dhekelia shows a number of worrying incidents, including a man allegedly trying to hang himself, before he is stopped by British military police.

Agony in the Aegean: Bodies of children wash up on Lesbos beach in heartbreaking scenes after 22 refugees drown off the coast in yet another human tragedy

30/10/15 23:53

The Aegean Sea was the scene of another humanitarian tragedy as 22 migrants, including nine children and four babies, drowned after their boats sank during the deadly crossing to Greece.

Ancient warrior's tomb that has laid untouched for 3,500 years discovered in Greece alongside huge hoard of treasure including gold jewellery and signet rings

27/10/15 15:15

The wooden coffin of the unknown soldier - evidently a person of some importance - was found on the site of the Mycenaean-era Palace of Nestor on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula.

Spilling blood for their religion: Tiny Shi'ite Muslim boys whip themselves with sharp blades to mourn the death of Prophet Muhammad's grandson

25/10/15 13:17

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Shi'ite Muslims around the world have been beating themselves with sharp blades and lighting bonfires to mourn the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson

Dramatic moment Turkish fishermen rescue toddler from the sea after migrant boat capsizes en route to Greece

24/10/15 12:21

Video footage captured by one of the men on board the fishing boat shows the 18-month-old wearing a life jacket being plucked from the water and treated in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey.

And still they come! As winter sets in, the vast tide of human misery washing ashore on Greek island shows no sign of abating as heart-stopping new images reveal migrants' battle with the weather as well as the sea

24/10/15 11:33

The UN's refugee agency has received disturbing reports of migrants and refugees having 'survival sex' with human traffickers and the women and says children travelling alone are at greater risk.

Heartbreaking moment a mother still clutching the lifeless body of her six-month-old baby is plucked from the Mediterranean along with 10 other migrants spotted by yacht crew

19/10/15 21:17

The woman and ten other Syrian refugees and Iraqi migrants were rescued by an Israeli yacht crew in the early hours of Sunday after their boat floundered near the Greek island of Kastellorizo overnight.

Five drown including a baby and two children after a boat carrying refugees from Turkey to Greece sank just a short distance from the coast

18/10/15 20:08

Greek authorities rescued 11 other migrants who survived their ordeal in the water after their boat sank during its perilous journey from Turkey as the weather worsens with the approach of winter.

Acropolis fees soar to pay for Greek debt: Entrance prices at some of the country's most popular attractions could quadruple

15/10/15 09:42

Greece is raising the ticket prices of the Acropolis of Athens, one of its most popular ancient sites dating from the 5th century BC, from £9 to a reported £38 to help with the nation’s spiralling debts.

The dentist who's best friend to 200 dogs: Animal-lover gives up his job to rescue pets left to starve in the scorching sun after crisis-hit Greeks abandon them

07/10/15 09:20

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - As the financial crisis’ grip on Greece gets ever tighter, people are being forced to dump their unnecessary expenditures – their dogs.

Three in four British travellers 'now actively avoiding' Islamic countries as holiday destinations, says new research

06/10/15 16:38

Following this summer's terrorist attack in Tunisia, as well as the migrant situation in the Mediterranean, British holidaymakers are now less willing to travel overseas.

Migration shockwaves have hit the EU 'like a bulldozer' says Iain Duncan Smith forcing leaders to rethink Tory calls for reform

03/10/15 17:31

The Cabinet's leading Eurosceptic says that the issues with migration coupled with the Greek debt crisis has changed the debate on Britain's membership in the European Union.

Distraught Syrian father is comforted by Turkish authorities after his son, 3, and wife drown during the dangerous crossing from Turkey to Greece

29/09/15 00:14

Hayat Sabir Burhan had to identify the bodies of both his son (pictured) and wife after the pair died in an attempted crossing from Turkey to Greece which claimed the lives of 17 migrants.

Inside the Kos hotel that has become home for thousands of refugees: Rooms and grounds of the Captain Elias are turned into makeshift bunks for desperate refugees as a further 17 drown crossing the sea on the Greek island

27/09/15 15:07

Since early this summer, the Captain Elias hotel on Kos has served as a temporary home for thousands of refugees and migrants before they leave the Greek holiday island for Europe.

The teenage Syrian refugee who has walked more than 300 miles hoping for a new life for him... and the puppy he's carried all the way to Lesbos

23/09/15 00:17

Refugee Aslan, 17, pictured, took his dog Rose all the way to the Greek island Lesbos as he felt he couldn't leave his pooch behind. The Syrian teenager even made a passport for his pooch.

Newly re-elected Greek Prime Minister faces his 'first crucial battle' - asking the creditors to write off some of the country's debts

22/09/15 16:11

The head of the European Parliament Martin Schulz has blasted Greek leader Alexis Tsipras for continuing a coalition with a small right-wing party who only polled four per cent of the vote.

Precious cargo: Desperate Syrian family risk the lives of their eight-month-old twins to make the perilous journey across the sea to Lesbos

22/09/15 00:22

The babies arrived on Eftalou beach on the Greek island of Lesbos today in a rubber dinghy after crossing the Aegan Sea from Turkey with their parents after they fled from Syria.

Here we go again! Alexis Tsipras hails a 'victory for the people' as his left-wing Syriza party is returned to power in Greece with 35% of the vote - paving way for the controversial EU bailout deal

21/09/15 01:42

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (pictured), 41, has triumphed over his rivals as his country went to the polls for the fifth time in six years, after his party lost parliamentary majority last month.

New migrant boat tragedy sees 13 die in ferry collision as search continues for nearly others including children feared drowned in second refugee disaster

20/09/15 19:44

The commercial vessel hit the migrant boat off the western port city of Canakkale today, Turkey's coastguard agency said. An official at the agency said eight people had been rescued.

Alexis Tsipras is set to return to power as part of a coalition as a tense Greece prepares to vote for second time in a year

19/09/15 12:46

Six polls have predicted the leftist Syriza party, which only got into government nine months ago, will get the most votes in tomorrow's ballot but the rival conservative party is just a few points behind.

Shocking moment Macedonian police officer attacks migrant families with a baton at the Greek border

17/09/15 15:48

Women can be heard screaming in the background as the Macedonian police officer hits people indiscriminately as they back away from him at the border with Greece.

Pictured: The £9.9million superyacht that ran aground as a violent storm battered an idyllic Greek island with high winds and massive waves

17/09/15 02:28

Four people were on board the 40-metre (131.4ft) vessel, Jelana, when it was washed onto a shallow reef just outside a swanky marina and yacht club in Corfu, Greece.

And still the boats keep coming: Authorities on Greek Lesbos struggling to cope with the 4,000 migrants arriving EVERY DAY

10/09/15 04:52

It may have been compared to a warzone by its residents, but that has not deterred boat loads of migrants from making the perilous crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.

Lilas, 2, suffered horrific burns at the hands of Assad's bombs in Syria. Now she is among thousands of starving migrants trapped on Lesbos who found their welcome to Europe a 'hell on earth'

09/09/15 16:35

Lilas Khanem's arm was horrifically burnt when her house in Al Qunaytirah, in south-western Syria, was bombed by President Bashir Assad's forces five months ago, her family say.

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