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Saving terrified migrants’ lives at sea
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
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Justice Secretary Michael Gove accuses the Remain campaign of treating voters like children and trying to scare them into voting to stay in the EU in June’s referendum.
Thousands of people are still attempting the treacherous journey by sea from Turkey to Greece every day. A Turkish coastguard tries to turn the dinghies back before they get to Greece – leading to some confrontations in the water.
One of the main suspects in the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and captured in Brussels.
Now at night, in hopelessly overloaded craft, they are pointed at destiny or death in the pitch-black moonless nights and heavy cloud of this week.
Migrants and refugees who were stranded at a camp on the Greek border cross a river near the frontier, with hundreds making it through a fence to Macedonia.
New figures show the scale of the migration surge facing the European Union, with asylum seeker numbers reaching a record high.
Saint Angela became Time Magazine’s person of the year. On migrants, her mantra was: “Wir schaffen das!” (“We can do this!”)
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are discussing the closure of the Balkan route migrants and refugees have been using to reach Germany and other European countries.
Russia rejects Turkish claims is has committed “an obvious war crime” following the deaths of up to 50 people in bombing attacks on hospitals and schools in Syria.
The claim “If we can get this deal in Europe, if we can this renegotiation fixed and we can stay in a reformed Europe, you know what you get… you know that the borders stay in Calais.” David Cameron, 8 February 2016 The background Could the kind of squalid migrant camps we see on the…
More than 20 refugees drown while trying to reach Greece, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey to discuss how to respond to the latest migrant surge caused by fighting in Syria.
A London conference aims to raise over £6 billion to help Syria’s neighbours provide for thousands of refugees. But in Geneva separate peace talks hoping to end the Syrian conflict collapse.
Ten people, at least eight of them German tourists, have been killed in a bombing in the Turkish city of Istanbul that has been blamed on Islamic State.
The attacks in France dominated the headlines, while the media were accused of ignoring other victims of the so-called Islamic State’s global campaign of terror.
Naji Jerf, a film director for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, is murdered by assassins in Turkey.