Twelve illegal immigrants try to sail to Greece in toy dinghies
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Police last night surrounded a house outside the village of Zagora, on Mount Pelion, where 45-year-old farmer Dimitris Kallios had locked himself in after shooting an officer.
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The government ordered an investigation Tuesday into claims that the Greek coast guard systematically mistreated illegal immigrants heading for the country's eastern islands.
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ELEVEN people-smugglers were handed heavy jail terms by an Albanian court today for the murder of at least 19 would-be immigrants, who froze to death when their boat sank in the Adriatic as they headed to ...
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A sport utility vehicle crammed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over in an attempt to outrun Border Patrol agents, killing nine people and injuring at least 12 others, officials said.
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Near death after days at sea, the African illegal immigrants had made it to Europe, but were too weak to step down the ship's gangplank. The scene last week was appalling but familiar &#151; more emaciated arrivals among the thousands risking death to reach Italy's lengthy coastline and, from there, prosperity in Europe.
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Boats carrying more than 400 migrants have been intercepted off Lampedusa over the past 48 hours, overwhelming the tiny island south of Sicily, local authorities said.
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Discussions on whether Malta should take back the 97 illegal immigrants who were "re-directed" to Sicily on Sunday morning are still going on , a spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Friday.
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ATHENS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Electra Floropoulou of the Lawyers Group for the  Rights of Refugees and Migrants was not expecting the police to  turn violent when she began taking photographs of the queue of  migrants outside the Athens Directorate for Foreigners.
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U.S. immigration tried to deport only 12 people on terrorism-related charges from 2004 through 2006, according to a private research study
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The EU plans joint naval patrols with Libya to curb the flow of illegal immigrants to Malta and Italy.
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PASIR PUTIH: Patriotism proved to be the undoing of a Thai boat crew caught fishing illegally in Malaysian waters two days ago.  The crew had gone to the trouble of painting a local registration number on the boat and even flew the Jalur Gemilang.
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At least 10 people were killed when a boat carrying around 100 would-be illegal immigrants sank early in the Mediterranean off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, local authorities said.
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ATHENS, Dec. 7 (IPS) - Immigration and dealing with migrant workers has  perennially been a problem for countries across Europe, but  nowhere more than in Greece. Huge problems remain unsolved while  the country attempts to match the requirements of EU law.
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Icy conditions are blamed for the deaths of 13 migrants aboard a boat headed for the Canary Islands in Spain.
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Human rights groups accused the Greek Coast Guard on Monday of systematically trying to swamp the boats of refugees heading for Europe. Greece denied the allegations.
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"We can't tell where they come from or who they are"  Eight illegal immigrants were found dead in waters south of Sicily today after their boat capsized. via The Sydney Morning Herald
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ROME -- Italy planned to send back more illegal immigrants Monday, after hundreds of people arrived over the weekend on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, news reports said.