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Wednesday 6 April 2016

trouble every day

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Deported Pakistani migrants on a bus in Lesbos on Monday morning, awaiting return via Turkey: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 4 March 2016 


Deported Pakistani migrants on a bus in Lesbos on Monday morning, awaiting return via Turkey: photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times, 4 March 2016 

Migrants deported from Greece under EU-Turkey deal - in pictures

Migrants arrive on a bus at the port of Mytilini on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday during the first day of the implementation of the deal between the EU and Turkey. Under the deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece will be returned to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if they make an asylum claim that is rejected.: photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP, 4 April 2016

World in focus – best photos for April 5, 2016

A woman walks during a misty morning at a makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni, at the Greek-Macedonian border: photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP, 5 April 2016

Migrants deported from Greece under EU-Turkey deal - in pictures

Migrants board a ferry for Turkey at the port of Mytilini on the Greek island of Lesbos, during the first day of the implementation of the deal between EU and Turkey. Under the deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece will be returned to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if they make an asylum claim that is rejected
.: photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP, 4 April 2016

Migrants deported from Greece under EU-Turkey deal - in pictures

Migrants who camp out at the port of Chios watch the arrival of a Turkish catamaran to carry the first group of migrants to be sent back to Turkey. Under a new agreement, designed to halt the main influx which comes from Turkey, all “irregular migrants” arriving since March 20 face being sent back, although the deal calls for each case to be examined individually.
: photo by
Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP, 4 April 2016

Migrants deported from Greece under EU-Turkey deal - in pictures

 Greek anti-riot police embark on a Turkish catamaran taking the first group of migrants to be sent back to Turkey at the port of Chios’ customs area. Greece sent a first wave of migrants back to Turkey on April 4 under an EU deal that has faced heavy criticism from rights groups..: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP, 4 April 2016

World in focus – best photos for April 5, 2016

An Iraqi woman pushes a tricycle after government forces evacuated hundreds of civilians from the town of Heet in Iraq’s Anbar province: photo by  Moadh Al Dulaimi / AFP, 5 April 2016


Iraqis from the town of Heet in Iraq's Anbar province, are evacuated by government forces to a safe area far from the battlefields where Iraqi troops are trying to retake the western town from the Islamic State: photo by adh Al-Dulaimi/AFP, 6 April 2016



Iraqis from the town of Heet in Iraq's Anbar province, are evacuated by government forces to a safe area far from the battlefields where Iraqi troops are trying to retake the western town from the Islamic State: photo by adh Al-Dulaimi/AFP, 6 April 2016



#Iraq Government forces evacuate the town of Heet #AFP Photo by Moadh Al-Dulaimi: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 6 April 2016



#Iraq Government forces evacuate the town of Heet #AFP Photo by Moadh Al-Dulaimi: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 6 April 2016


A young girl and a young boy speak at former first reception center near to the port of Chios. By @lgouliam #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 6 April 2016


GREECE - A young girl charges a mobile phone at former reception center near to the port of Chios. By @lgouliam #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 4 April 2016


Migrants protest inside Moria detention center in Lesbos against deportation to Turkey. By @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 6 April 2016


Migrants protest inside Moria detention center in Lesbos against deportation to Turkey. By @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 6 April 2016


Migrants protest inside Moria detention center in Lesbos against deportation to Turkey. By @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 6 April 2016
 

GREECE - A baby sits on a blanket near his mother in the port of Chios. By @lgouliam #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 April 2016


GREECE - Children dry their laundry behind a fence at the VIAL detention center on Chios' island. By @lgouliam #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 April 2016

 

#Lesbos #Refugees arrive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 April 2016



#Lesbos #Refugees arrive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis,, 4 April 2016


 TURKEY - An activist holds a placard as ferry docks in Dikili with migrants returned from Greece. By @ozannkose #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 April 2016

 

 Refugee crisis: Photos of first migrants deported from Greece to Turkey in EU deal: image via David Sim @davidsim, 4 April 2016 



TURKEY - Turkish officers use a tarp to block the gate of a ferry carrying migrants in Dikili. By @ozannkose #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 4 April 2016


Riots threaten deal to deport migrants back to Turkey: image via The Times of London @thetimes, 4 April 2016
 

Gate at the closed migrant facility on Greek island of Lesbos.: image via William Booth @BoothWilliam, 4 April 2016


TURKEY - A deported migrant from Greece leaves for a medical check after registering in Dikili. By @ozannkose #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 4 April 2016


First Syrians arrive in Germany under EU-Turkey pact. Photo @tobiasschwarz #RefugeeCrisis: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 April 2016

 


Many migrants will never move onward to northern Europe; others will only move backward: image via Reuters Opinion @ReutersOpinion, 6 April 2016

 

#migrants and refugees wait for a food distribution in Idomeni #Greece #AFP Photo by @Kilicbil: image via Aurelia BAILLY Aurelia BAILLY, 6 April 2016 


GREECE - Children sit by a bonfire as a man cooks at the migrants makeshift camp near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 6 April 2016
 
 

Greece ships first migrants back to Turkey under EU deal: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 5 April 2016


#migrants and refugees block a road in the northern border village of #Idomeni #Greece #AFP Photo by @Kilicbil: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY. 5 April 2016


GREECE - A mother washes her daughter's hair at a makeshift camp in Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 5 April 2016 


GREECE - A girl holds her cat that she has brought from Syria at a makeshift camp in Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 6 April 2016


A Syrian boy stands at a #migrants makeshift camp in #Idomeni #Greece #AFP Photo by @Kilicbil: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 6 April 2016


GREECE - Women with their children at a makeshift camp in Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 3 April 2016


GREECE - Women with their children at a makeshift camp in Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 3 April 2016

 

GREECE - Women with their children at a makeshift camp in Idomeni. By @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 3 April 2016


GREECE - A man prays at a makeshift camp set by refugees and migrants near Idomeni. By @Kilicil #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 3 April 2016 


GREECE - Refugees block the highway near Polykastro to protest for the opening of the border. By @Kilicil #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department  @AFPphoto, 2 April 2016
 
Daily life at the Idomeni makeshift camp on the Greek border with Macedonia. Photo @Kilicbil #RefugeeCrisis: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 2 April 2016


Daily life at the Idomeni makeshift camp on the Greek border with Macedonia. Photo @Kilicbil #RefugeeCrisis: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 2 April 2016

Daily life at the Idomeni makeshift camp on the Greek border with Macedonia. Photo @Kilicbil #RefugeeCrisis: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 2 April 2016


instantané Une fillette syrienne du camp de réfugiés d'Idomeni, dans le nord de la Grèce. Photo @Kilicbil #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 2 April 2016 


GREECE - A man carries a child as migrants & refugees carry on with their daily lives near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 2 April 2016


GREECE - A refugee plays a string instrument near border fence at the makeshift camp near Idomeni. By @Kilicbil: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardafp, 2 April 2016

Migrants deported from Greece under EU-Turkey deal - in pictures

Migrants are deported to Turkey from the port of Mytilene on April 4. Migrants return from Greece to Turkey under the terms of an EU deal that has worried aid groups, as Athens struggles to manage the overload of desperate people on its soil.: photo by Aris Messinis / AFP, 4 April 2016

Migrants deported from Greece under EU-Turkey deal - in pictures

Refugees are escorted by Turkish police as they arrive by ferry from the Greek island of Lesbos at the Dikili harbour in Izmir, Turkey. Some 160 migrants, from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Morroco, who refused to apply for asylum, were deported under an agreement between the EU and Turkey on the refugee crisis.: photo by Tolga Bozoglu / EPA, 4 April 2016

World in focus – best photos for April 4, 2016

“Refugees welcome to EU” is painted on a street in front of Austrian police officers in the village of Brenner on the Italian-Austrian border: photo by Kerstin Joensson / AP, 4 April 2016

World in focus – best photos for April 4, 2016

A family walks through a field at a makeshift camp for refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni
: photo by Greece. Marko Djurica / Reuters, 4 April 2016



Are police body cameras reliable? You be the judge: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 2 April 2016


The authorities on the Greek island of Lesbos began deporting refugees to Turkey on Monday: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 4 April 2016


Members of the Economic Club of New York waited to hear Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, speak on Tuesday: photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters, 29 March 2016


Members of the Economic Club of New York waited to hear Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, speak on Tuesday: photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters, 29 March 2016



Waves crash on the seawall of a restaurant while clouds darken the sky over the Lebanese capital of Beirut: photo by Bilal Hussein / AP, 28 March 2016


Musicians honoring the long tradition of an orchestra poker game at intermission on the opening night of “Roberto Devereux” in New York: photo by James Estrin/The New York Times, 1 April 2016



Musicians honoring the long tradition of an orchestra poker game at intermission on the opening night of “Roberto Devereux” in New York: photo by James Estrin/The New York Times, 1 April 2016
 

Mariam Muhammad, a 7-month-old Syrian, slept in a tent at a camp for refugees in Jordan on Wednesday: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press, 30 March 2016



Mariam Muhammad, a 7-month-old Syrian, slept in a tent at a camp for refugees in Jordan on Wednesday: photo by Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press, 30 March 2016


People sleep in the port of Chios, Greece where refugees and migrants who managed to leave the VIAL detention centre a few days ago are camping: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP, 6 April 2016



People sleep in the port of Chios, Greece where refugees and migrants who managed to leave the VIAL detention centre a few days ago are camping: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP, 6 April 2016

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake ...Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency took this striking photograph of the moon from his vantage point aboard the International Space Station on March 28, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ESA/NASA / HandoutHANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images

This photograph of the moon taken by Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency from aboard the International Space Station: photo by Tim Peake/ESA/Nasa/AFP, 6 April 2016

Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake ...Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency took this striking photograph of the moon from his vantage point aboard the International Space Station on March 28, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ESA/NASA / HandoutHANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images

This photograph of the moon taken by Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency from aboard the International Space Station: photo by Tim Peake/ESA/Nasa/AFP, 6 April 2016


Sunrise on Friday in Idomeni, Greece, where thousands of refugees have been living in a camp near the Greek border with Macedonia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 1 April 2016
 
 

Sunrise on Friday in Idomeni, Greece, where thousands of refugees have been living in a camp near the Greek border with Macedonia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 1 April 2016

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