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...recent months on the remote island of Leros, near the Turkish coast. They arrived in Greece without their parents, a worrisome pattern immigration experts say is increasingly common. Most of the 121 children held on the island are from Afghanistan, but there are also Palestinians and Eritrians, said Sophia Ioannou, spokeswoman for the Greek branch of the humanitarian aid group Médecins du Monde (MdM). She said all the children were crammed into a single facility without enough beds or toilets...
...Ioannou, speaking from phone from Athens, denied an earlier report that MdM colleagues on the island had encouraged the hunger strike as a way to draw attention to the children's plight. She says the children are drinking fluids and eating every two or three days. "But obviously," she said, "a child of 10 or 11 years old not eating for three days is risky for their health...
...their boats and into the water well before arriving at shore. Thousands of would-be immigrants are believed to die each year in the Mediterranean, according to a top European Union official. Arrivals in Greece, most of them smuggled by boat from Turkey, have been increasing in recent months. Ioannou said that on this small island of Leros, for example, more than 800 immigrants have come in the first four months of 2008, up from just 45 for the same period last year...
Founded in 2005, easyCruise made an immediate splash with supercheap cruises of the Caribbean. Since then, the line's bright orange ships have expanded to the Mediterranean and the canals of the Netherlands and Belgium. But this season, Hadji-Ioannou discontinued the Riviera route, redeploying one (so far) of his ships to ply the coasts of his home country, beginning May 18. "Greece is an ideal environment for this unique concept to work best," he says. "Its cluster of close-distance islands means more itineraries--and money for us--rather than sailing the Riviera coast." Like the pioneer...
With experts predicting a 20% increase in Greek cruises this year, Hadji-Ioannou could not have picked a better moment. Easy sailing, it seems, for Mr. Easy...