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Protestors clash with riot police during a demonstration against the reinforced measures of the Belgium government to counter the latest spike of the coronavirus in Brussels, Belgium
Top of The World
Europe sees widespread protests against COVID-19 restrictions
The Aegean Sea is shown from Lesbos. Increasingly, migrants and advocates claim, Greek authorities are illegally pushing back to Turkey people who are making the journey to Greece in the Aegean Sea. 
Refugees
‘People are being abandoned in the middle of the sea’: Claims that Greece pushes back migrants to Turkey are rising
The new migrant facility on Lesbos will be built next to an active landfill, according to a map published by local media in the fall.
Refugees
‘This island is a prison’: Migrants say plan for a refugee camp on Lesbos is too isolating
A migrant stands outside his tent at Karatepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, March 29, 2021. The European Union's home affairs commissioner is visiting asylum-seeker facilities on the eastern Greek islands of Samos and
Refugees
Activists protest migrant facility plan in Greece: ‘Greek islands will not be turned to prisons’ 
Since the fire that engulfed Moria camp on Lesbos island nearly two weeks ago, more than 500 of the 12,000 displaced migrants and refugees have been taking shelter at a center run by Team Humanity, a nonprofit humanitarian organization. 
Refugees
Migrants displaced by Lesbos fire say conditions at new camp are inhumane
Several people are show running from a large fire engulfing several structures behind them.
Top of The World
Devastating fire destroys Moria refugee camp; AstraZeneca vaccine trial paused; Thwaites Glacier seafloor survey identifies possible vulnerability
Asylum-seekers' clothes hang to dry near a makeshift camp for refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Refugees
This Syrian is stuck at a makeshift border camp in Greece
A riot police officer hits a migrant with his baton as police tries to disperse a group of migrants outside the port of Mytilene, Greece, March 3, 2020.
Refugees
Opposition to expanding refugee camps in Greece takes new turn
A group of children sit in on carpet inside room surrounded by blue tarp
Education
This school at a refugee camp in Lesbos is a safe haven for children 
A tattered boat on the sea under stormy skies.
Environment
Greece’s refugee crisis creates a strain on an already fragile ecosystem
Myrta Kalampoka says investing in her olive trees saved her family from the Greek economic crisis. Now she hopes their olive oil can rescue them from an ongoing drop in tourism to Lesbos.
Economics
Hear how investing in olive trees saved one Lesbos family from economic crisis
EMILY is a livesafing device being used to safe refugee and migrants found at sea.
Conflict
It’s a buoy, it’s a life raft, it’s Emily — the robotic craft that’s saving refugees off the coast of Greece
Somali refugees
Media
Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe
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Justice
The cemeteries on Lesbos are full. But refugee families still need to bury their dead.