Migrant crisis: EU-Turkey deal comes into effect
- 20 March 2016
- Europe
The agreement between the EU and Turkey to tackle the migrant crisis has formally come into effect.
Under the deal, migrants arriving in Greece are now expected to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or their claim is rejected.
The influx of people crossing to Greek islands grew ahead of the deadline, and Greece said immediate implementation of the deal would not be possible.
Meanwhile, thousands rallied against the deal in several European cities.
The deal says that for every Syrian migrant sent back to Turkey, one Syrian already in Turkey will be resettled in the EU.
Clare Hollingworth: 104-year-old on being first UK correspondent to report on Germany's invasion of Poland
When she called the British embassy in Warsaw, a diplomat refused to believe her story
When Suzanne and Helen opened the door of the cramped, box-like apartment in Albert Road, I didn’t even notice the small, huddled figure on the sofa. It was only when Helen, one of the two people who look after Clare Hollingworth in her Hong Kong home, stood aside that I saw the very elderly lady in a red cardigan with thin hair and jutting jaw and heavy spectacles and realised that I was looking at the reporter who wrote the greatest scoop of the Second World War.
Yes, in August of 1939, this crouched little woman – 104 years old, sightless now and moving only with the greatest difficulty around her tiny flat – boldly crossed the Polish-German frontier in a British diplomat’s car and saw General Gerd von Rundstedt’s Wehrmacht tanks, in their thousands, lined up to invade Poland.
A Painful Farewell: SPIEGEL Correspondent Forced to Leave Turkey
By Hasnain KazimFor three years, Hasnain Kazim reported for DER SPIEGEL from Istanbul. Now, he has been forced out of the country. His impressions from a place where press freedoms are on the decline and authoritarianism is on the rise.
On our last day in Turkey, my family and I are not in the mood to go, but we have to leave the country. After several torturous months of uncertainty and concern, we have no other option. We fear for our safety.
The bags are packed. The furniture, books, clothing, everything is gone. My son has been taken out of kindergarten; it was a painful farewell for him too. Before we drive to the airport, I write down a list of telephone numbers for my wife: colleagues, diplomats, friends in Istanbul. These are in case I am detained at the airport and my family has to continue their journey without me.
Since the beginning of the year, the Turkish government has declined to grant me accreditation as a foreign correspondent, thereby denying me the ability to work. As a German journalist living in Turkey, I need a residency permit -- and this permit is linked to my press accreditation.
The graffiti masterpiece that covers 50 buildings in Cairo
Franco-Tunisian artist eL Seed and his team have been working on a giant urban graffiti in Cairo over the past few months. Photos of the finished project, called “Perception”, just debuted on social media. The photos show the poor neighbourhood of Manshiyat Naser transformed into a giant piece of swirling calligraphy, spelled out over 50 different buildings.
eL Seed has created “calligraffitis” all over the world, from Algiers to Doha, Paris to New York.
Manshiyat Naser is a Cairo neighbourhood that is home to the Coptic Christian community of Zaraeeb. Most neighbourhood residents make a living by collecting and sorting the city’s trash.
Video of weeping Indian goes viral, Saudi government jails him
A video of a man weeping and narrating his plight as a driver in Saudi Arabia has gone viral on the internet with over one million views, after it was posted on March 12. The man has been identified as a native of Dandeli, Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. He has been jailed by the Saudi police for allegedly posting the video.
The man in the video, Abdul Sattar Makandar (35), a native of Hasan Maad area in Dandeli, is seen pleading for help to return to India from the kingdom where he has worked since 2014 as a truck driver at a construction engineering firm in Al Khobar.
Abdul says his employer of 23 months has not granted him leave, has not paid him regularly and is preventing him from leaving the country as his Iqama (work permit) and passport were in his possession. He claims he was forced to sign unknown documents. “Abdul sought help and sent me the video on March 12 and I posted it on Facebook in a bid to attract the attention of the Indian government to help bring him back,” Delhi-based social activist Kundan Srivastava told The Hindu.
Why road construction is pushing lions out of Nairobi National Park
A leading Kenyan wildlife expert believes road construction noise is scaring lions out of Nairobi National Park. It could lead to the death of people or the lions.
NAIROBI, KENYA — A leading Kenyan wildlife expert has said the noise from road construction is scaring lions out of Nairobi National Park and could lead to the death of people or the lions.
A lion injured a 63-old man Friday after it strayed from the Nairobi park into a major highway during the morning rush hour. Kenya Wildlife Service rangers captured and returned it to the park. It was third incident in the last two months of lions straying from the park.
The construction of a road joining two of the city's major highways along the boundary of the Nairobi park is disorienting the lions, said wildlife expert Paula Kahumbu.
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