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With tears in her eyes, she tossed a bouquet of yellow flowers into the water.

Her brother, Abdullah, is not ready to leave his Syrian hometown of Kobani, where his sons and wife Rehanna were buried on Friday, she said. I have buried my soul, feelings and mind in the grave.

The French-based NGO Medicine Sans Frontieres (MSF) has criticised the lack of coordination and the conditions the migrants have to endure, as only a little food and water is being provided by Greek authorities in Kos.

The crowds, including many infants, waited with little food and water under a scorching Sunday.

Other migrants have complained of preferential treatment.

Spindler noted that Greece faces an economic crisis, but called on its government to help global organizations like UNHCR take a more active role in places like the overburdened island of Kos.

Greek authorities are planning to add more ferries to the route linking the islands of the eastern Aegean to the port of Piraeus and elsewhere on the mainland in a bid to ease pressure on the islands which are on the front line of an influx of migrants.

Almost 110,000 migrants have been tracked getting into the EU in July by irregular means, official knowledge confirmed on Tuesday, setting a record because the inflow continues, notably of Syrians reaching Greek islands from Turkey.

Hundreds of Syrian migrants have begun to board a giant passenger ferry on the Greek island of Kos – which will provide them with temporary accommodation.

The island has several thousand migrants camping out and staying in hotels, but tempers have flared as the numbers have swelled, worsening conditions and lengthening the wait for permission to leave. This week, Greek police struggled to keep order on the island of Kos with new...

Michel Allatuain waited beneath the 14th century fortress at the port of this Greek island on Thursday, desperate for a ferry ticket to the European mainland and a better life. Public spending throughout Greece, including on its islands, has been decimated and the basic...

Dozens more refugees and migrants arrived on the island in rubber dinghies, adding to the unprecedented 125,000 who have reached a string of eastern Aegean islands so far this year – a 750 per cent increase on last year. However, police are now conducting eviction...

The scuffles between the police and migrants took place a day after a Greek police officer on the island was suspended for brandishing a knife and slapping a man identified by Greek media as a Pakistani migrant.