Greek police fired tear gas during a protest by refugees and migrants seeking to leave the island of Lesbos homeless in the largest refugee camp in Europe. Under intense heat on Saturday, protesters chanted “Freedom” and “No Camp” as authorities on the other side of Lesbos began efforts to set …
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Authorities begin pitching tents in Lesbos after thousands of men, women and children were forced into a devastating fire to evacuate Greece’s largest refugee camp. Faced with fierce opposition from local officials, who were now demanding that the infamous overcrowded Moria facility be removed “once and for all” from the …
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Lesbos, Greece – After days of fire reduced Europe’s largest refugee camp to embers, flames are erupting around the erupted remains of Moria. Fire engines run back and forth on the Greek mountain to contain the new fire, weaving between the surrounding roads and families lurking on olive groves. The …
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Thousands of refugees slept the second night on the island of Lesbos on the island of Greece, when the fire caused the country’s largest camp to collapse to the ground, the crowd fleeing from there but nowhere to go. Families slept on the side of the road, in supermarket parking …
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On Sunday, Turkey’s armed forces began an annual exercise in the broken republic of northern Cyprus – the only body recognized by Ankara – to raise tensions with Greece in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey’s hunt for gas and oil reserves in the waters claimed by Greece has put great strain …
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