Refugee camp

A recent close-up by London and Athens-based photographer Georgios Makkas shows that expensive smart phones, particularly ones with waterproof gadgets, mean a lot more than keeping in contact for Aegean refugees who have been risking their lives for a better future away from the risks of war and deadly poverty.

New Zealand announced on Sept.7 it will take 750 Syrian refugees over the next three years after coming under intense pressure to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

The British government is poised to accept 15,000 Syrian refugees and hopes next month to get backing for air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists, the Sunday Times reported.

Hungary shut its main border crossing with Serbia on Sept. 4 after about 300 migrants escaped from a nearby refugee camp, police said.

European Union countries should sharply increase offers to share out asylum seekers across the bloc to relocate at least 100,000 and should set up refugee reception centres outside Europe, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Sept.3.

Pictures of the dead body of a small boy swept to Turkey?s Aegean cost on the morning of Sept. 2 shattered the hearts of millions in the country.

Serbia's Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy, Aleksandar Vulin, has criticized Bulgaria's decision to dispatch troops to the Macedonian border in order to curb the number of asylum seekers entering the country.

The magnitude of the refugee crisis in Greece was outlined a UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report, according to which the number of refugees that landed on the Greek islands in one week (August 8-15) was half the total in all of 2014!

Fewer and fewer migrants are being seen on the streets and in the parks of the Aegean province of ?zmir as Syrian refugees preparing to sail for Greece have been gathered and sent to tent camps, after being initially brought to a nearby stadium, CNNTürk has reported.

Around 500 refugees of Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian origins sheltering in an Athens park say they have no wish to stay in Greece and are hoping to move on to greener EU pastures as soon as they acquire documents.

The drama of the roughly 124,000 refugees that have struggled through the hardships of the journey to reach Greece does not end when they arrive on the country's shores.