Earthquakes are common in both countries.

People-smugglers are overloading refugees in inflatable dinghies that are so poorly manufactured they’ve no hope of making their destination.

Huma Mobin's new husband couldn't get a visa - so she went to Greece without him.

Huma Mobin and Arsalaan Sever Butt got married seven months ago and had planned a romantic second honeymoon to Greece.

In the aftermath of Brexit, the upcoming Nato summit in Warsaw, offers the West a chance to work towards greater unity which is exactly what is needed at this time, says Bogdan Klich

After first opening the doors of Germany to migrants in need of help, pressure from within and across the rest of Europe has forced Angela Merkel into an uneasy agreement with Turkey. Despite the fact that it seems to be working, it may damage her legacy, says Leonid Bershidsky

Efforts to limit the amount of refugees seeking the shores of Europe are working, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said.

The EU is to overhaul an asylum system it says is “neither fair nor sustainable” as it grapples with the worst migration crisis since the Second World War.

Acting Minister for Defence Simon Coveney is to seek Cabinet approval today to resume the Naval Service’s humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean Sea and says he hopes to increase its strength to a nine-ship fleet in the next three to four years.

The first migrants deported from Greek islands under a disputed EU-Turkey deal were shipped back to Turkey in a drive to shut down the main route by which a million people fleeing war and poverty crossed the Aegean Sea in the last year.

Hours before Greece was due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, little sign of preparation was evident on Lesbos, the island through which hundreds of thousands of people have poured into Europe since last year.

Monitors from Turkey have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to help supervise an agreement aimed at limiting the number of refugees and migrants travelling to the European Union.

Greece looks set to start sending migrants back to Turkey from the beginning of next week after a proposed "one in, one out" scheme apparently won the approval of EU leaders in Brussels.

EU officials have added last- minute changes to a pact with Turkey to halt the flow of migrants into Europe in an effort to make it legally watertight, but a standoff with Cyprus could yet scupper a deal at a summit.

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the ongoing refugee crisis.

The Nato Maritime Group is being ordered immediately into the Aegean Sea to help end smuggling of migrants between Turkey and Greece, the secretary general said.

As drownings in the Mediterranean continue and winter grips the perilous routes refugees are beating towards Europe, EU leaders remain divided over how to deal with the largest movement of people since the Second World War.

Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, and a senior Bavarian politician have criticised Greece’s role in Europe’s biggest migration crisis since the Second World War.

A Russian destroyer has used small arms fire to ward off a Turkish fishing ship and prevent a collision in the Aegean Sea, the Defence Ministry said.

At least nine people, including four children, have died in the eastern Aegean Sea after a plastic boat carrying refugees or economic migrants overturned near the island of Kos, Greek authorities said.

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The EU is predicting that 3m more migrants could arrive in the 28-nation bloc by the end of next year, with the refugee emergency already providing a stern test of EU capacities to offer shelter and welcome.

The number of migrants and refugees entering Europe by sea last month was roughly the same as for the whole of 2014, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said.

Seventeen refugees drowned when their boat sank yesterday off the Turkish coast while headed for the Greek island of Kos, the Anadolu Agency reported.

Dozens of refugees are feared dead after two boat tragedies left rescuers scouring the seas for those who had set out on risky crossings after fleeing war and poverty in their homelands.

At least 34 people, among them women, babies and young children, have drowned in the Aegean Sea.

Most children don’t want to talk about the war. They dream of going back to school, writes Aleksandar Lazovski

Call on all member states to support under-pressure countries.

Five people have drowned off the Turkish coast, as they tried to reach the Greek islands, officials said.

Local authorities and Red Cross volunteers on Crete are racing to prepare shelter and food for hundreds of immigrants on a crippled freighter being towed to safety by a Greek navy frigate.