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Greece
FYROM to Send Back to Greece Migrants Who Entered Illegally
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is to send back hundreds of refugees who entered the country illegally from Greece, although Skopje has not made an official request yet.
According to FYROM police the 700-800 refugees and migrants who crossed...
Greece
FYROM Arrests Greek Photojournalists Following Refugee Trail
FYROM authorities arrested an undisclosed number of refugees and at least ten photojournalists who crossed into the Balkan country from Greece Monday evening.
Greece
Migrant Tragedies Continue Unabated
A new migrant tragedy has claimed the lives of three people on the blocked Greek-FYROM border.
FYROM police said three people, two men and a woman, drowned while trying to cross a river.
This latest migrant tragedy comes amid reports that...
Greece
Greek Minister Admits Many Migrants May Remain in Greece Permanently
The number of refugees and migrants stranded in Greece is over 45,000 and keeps growing on a daily basis as more desperate souls end up on Greek shores but cannot continue their way to the core of Europe as...
Europe
Border Closures Heighten Fear Refugees May Use Adriatic Connection
Huma rights groups and organized crime experts are expressing rising alarm at the prospect of Syrian and Iraqi war refugees — many of them women and children — heading into Albania from Greece, now that the main Balkans route...
Greece
FYROM’s Gjorge Ivanov Criticizes Brussels for EU’s Refugee Policy
FYROM’s president Gjorge Ivanov has justified the decision of his country to seal off the borders by saying in an interview to the German tabloid Bild that if they did not do so FYROM would be flocked by jihadists.
Ivanov...
Greece
Refugee Woman Gives Birth on Greece-FYROM Border
The picture of a woman washing an infant that looks only days old is added in the tragic chronicle of the 14,000 refugees who are stranded on the Greece-FYROM border, uncertain of their future.
The plight of refugees and migrants...
Greece
Ai Weiwei Returns to Champion Refugees' Cause at Idomeni; 'This is like a Second War,' Syrian Woman Says
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was at the side of the refugees in Greece once again on Thursday, this time at the tiny village of Idomeni on Greece's northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and...
Greece
Greek Elderly Couple Open their Home to Refugees [video]
As more than twelve thousand refugees are trapped in the neutral zone between Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia under substandard conditions, an elderly Greek couple of nearby Idomeni village opened their home to offer the hapless people...
Greece
FYROM Completely Shuts Borders With Greece
FYROM has closed its borders completely to migrants stranded in Greece after several Balkan states, including Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia announced they will not allow migrants to cross their borders, according to Daily Mail
As reported in the Daily Mail,...