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A coach full of Ukrainians fleeing the war arrives at the Greece-Bulgaria border. Violence rages 12 days into the war between Russia and Ukraine, even as a third round of peace negotiations was starting on Monday and the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers eyed talks in Turkey later this week. IMAGES
Reading (UK), Mar 8 (EPA-EFE).- (Camera: Neil Hall) For refugees and asylum seekers, starting a new life in the UK presents a number of difficult challenges, from learning the language to finding common ground with the locals.And that is why Sactuary Strikers Football Club was born, a soccer team that seeks to bring cultures closer together, integrate and foster a cohesion between communities that will lead to great friendships and conversations so that no one feels alone.FOOTAGE OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM, PLAYING AND TRAINING IN READINGSOUNDBITES OF TOMSON CHALKE, FOUNDER OF THE TEAMTRANSLATION"Sanctuary Strikers is a project that we started to promote integration and cohesion between communities. As a personal story I realized that I needed friends for being part of a minority community and sometimes if you have something like soccer, which people have fun with, people come to you and you can start to have a conversation. When we start talking, that's when we establish conversations, we learn about each other's cultures, we share who we are and where we come from. That is what we are trying to promote. We are affiliated with a group of refugees. I work as a volunteer there. And it is where we realized that people need help to learn, speak English and also make friends."Soccer is a beautiful sport that brings people closer together and promotes our vision at Sanctuary Strikers, which is community cohesion, integration. We learn from each other, there is no discrimination in soccer. There are no borders in soccer, unites nations, we are all one. Regardless of color, race, culture. It is a beautiful sport that unites people. With football we all smile, and we end up talking to each other. After the game when we hit each other hand in hand, we support each other to do better. That's what we want. "
Athens, Dec 4 (EFE) .- (Camera: Alberto Borreguero) Until a few weeks ago, Athens was the only European capital that lacked an official mosque. The long Ottoman occupation and strained relations with Turkey continue to weigh on the lives of Muslims in Greece.FOOTAGE OF ATHENS.SOUNDBITES OF MOHAMED ZAKI, IMMAM OF THE NEW MOSQUE IN ATHENS; YORGOS KALANTSÍS, SECRETARY GENERAL FOR WORSHIP; AND ASIR JAYDER, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SHIITE COMMUNITY OF ATHENS.Translations: Zaki: "For us, Muslims, it's a relief, a pleasure. We're very happy to finally have a place to legally pray, without fearing the closure of the mosque in the future." Kalantsis: "Turkey tries to use Islam to play a protector of Islam role in the world, that's why it tried to meddle in the mosque of Athens, to try and make it seem like they had a say in it." Jayder: Speaks in English.
Munich (Germany), Sep 20 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Lukas Barth-Tuttas).- Hundreds of people took to the streets of Munich on Sunday to show their solidarity with Lesbos refugees, demanding the evacuation of all the refugee camps in Greece.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST ON SUNDAY.
Stuttgart (Germany), Sep 18 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Ronald Wittek).- The German organization Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) transported tents, beds, mats and sleeping bags from Stuttgart to Lesbos as hundreds left homeless by Moria fire on 9 September.FOOTAGE OF THW STAFF LOADING TRUCKS WITH GOODS FOR REFUGEES.
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