Asylum seekers crossing from Turkey say they have been illegally deported by Greek police or blocked from entering   UN general secretary Ban Ki-Moon talks to refugees during a visit to the Islahiye Syrian refugee camp in Gaziantep, Turkey. Photograph: Veli Gurgah/Anadolu/EPA On the edge of Europe, where the river Evros meanders towards the Aegean sea, a new tragedy involving two of the world's most tr ...

Reuters has disclosed the outcome of the Greek debt buyback, citing a Eurozone official, which while completed at €32 billion, has missed it hard goal by €450 million, and as a result the completely unbelievable Greek 2020 debt/GDP target will be 126.6% instead of 124%. Reuters also reports that the average price on the buyback was 33.5 cents on the euro. As a result of the higher price paid for the buyback ...

Netherlands, 7 dec 2012 [flagallery gid=4 name=Gallery] Three month old migrant protest camp Osdorp/Amsterdam evicted – 96 undocumented arrested, 86 released, 1 deported -; followed by big church squatted for continuation protest in western suburb of Amsterdam; protest camp in The Hague threatened with eviction. Photo report of eviction: https://www.indymedia.nl/node/11042 Photo report of Flight church: htt ...

112 dead after preventable fire at Bangladesh garment factory   Update Dec 6, 2012: Sometimes, you read something, and it makes your blood boil. Like this quote from today's New York Times, about Walmart's connection to the fire in a Bangladesh factory that killed 112 people two weeks ago: "[T]wo officials who attended a meeting held in Bangladesh in 2011 to discuss factory safety in the garment indust ...

Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece –  In a tragedy related to Greece's financial crisis, three children died in a northern village Saturday when a fire burned down the home of their grandparents, who were using a wooden stove because heating oil prices have soared, officials said. The blaze started in the stove and quickly engulfed the house, whose roof collapsed on two of the victims, aged 5 and 7. The ...

Na Duitsland heeft ook het Nederlandse kabinet besloten om patriotraketten te sturen naar Turks-Syrische grens. Samen met deze raketten zullen ook honderden Nederlandse militairen gestationeerd worden op Turks grondgebied.  Wij verzetten ons resoluut tegen de legering van Nederlandse troepen en patriotraketten in Turkije. Turkije en het Midden-Oosten hebben behoefte aan vrede en geen oorlog. De bevolking in ...

Doctors are left "playing God," having to choose which patient will get the costly treatment.   By Benoît Vitkine LE MONDE/Worldcrunch THESSALONIKI - It was in 2009 – what feels like ages ago now - that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reported that the Greek healthcare system was "rather efficient." Around that very same time, doctors in Thessaloniki successfully cured ...

(Reuters) - Egyptian immigrant Waleed Taleb says demanding his unpaid wages in Greece came at a heavy price; 18 hours chained and beaten by his boss, a stint in jail and orders to leave the country he calls home. One of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who toil in Greece's black labor market, Taleb had just finished cleaning the bakery where he worked one November morning on the island of Sa ...

Athens 2008Thessaloniki 2012Bologna, Italy 2012Athens 2012Istanbul, Turkey 2012Athens Antifa banner 2012Bologna, Italy 2012   In December 2008, "Eleftheros Typos" photojournalist Kostas Tsironis got fired for that photoNapoli, Italy 2012                                          Look at these children; anyone of them could have been AlexisCrete, Greece 2012 Athens  2012   Short updates: Lot of Greek pol ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants concludes the fourth and last country visit in his regional study on the human rights of migrants at the borders of the European Union: Greece ATHENS (3 December 2012): Following an invitation by the Government, I conducted a visit to Greece from 25 November to 3 December 2012. During my 9-day visit, I visited Athens, the Evros region bordering Turkey, t ...