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GREECE-ATHENS-CARGO SHIP-CREW MEMBERS-MISSING

(231126) -- ATHENS, Nov. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers transfer a rescued sailor to an ambulance on the Aegean Sea island of Lesvos, Greece, Nov. 26, 2023. Thirteen crew members aboard a cargo vessel are missing after the ship sank off the Aegean Sea island of Lesvos on Sunday. One sailor was rescued by a Hellenic Navy helicopter and was taken to a local hospital, Greece's national news agency AMNA reported. (Photo by Panagiotis Balaskas/Xinhua)

Greece calls for more cooperation against smugglers

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Greece calls for more solidarity within EU on management of migration challenge

STORY: Greece calls for more solidarity within EU on management of migration challenge DATELINE: Sept. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): NOTIS MITARACHI, Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum 2. various of the press conference of Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi 3. various of migrants arriving by boat at Island of Lesvos in February 2020 (file) 4. various of the closed control access center of Samos 5. various of the control room of monitoring the closed control access centers across the Greece located in Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum STORYLINE: Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi reiterated on Monday in Athens a call for the demonstration of "more solidarity" among EU member states on the management of the migration challenge. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): NOTIS MITARACHI, Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum "There is an impasse today at the European level regarding the issue of management of migrat

Newborn among 32 migrants rescued off Greece's island

STORY: Newborn among 32 migrants rescued off Greece's island DATELINE: June 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: (courtesy of the Greek Coast Guard) 1. drone shots of the point near Lesvos Island where the migrants were rescued 2. various of the woman with her newborn baby 3. various of the transfer of the rescued migrants to Lesvos Island STORYLINE: Thirty-two migrants, including a newborn, were rescued on Wednesday off Greece's Lesvos island, the country's Coast Guard said. A woman who was on board the migrants' dinghy that had sailed from Turkey gave birth on the islet of Barbalias, Greek national news agency AMNA reported. All migrants were transferred to Lesvos and the mother and boy are in good health at the local hospital, Greek Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy Ioannis Plakiotakis said in an e-mailed press statement. The nationalities of the migrants were not revealed. The incident occurred as the influx of migrants and refugees in the