Greece needs help to cope with six-fold migrant increase - U.N

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Greece urgently needs help to cope with a six-fold rise in migrants arriving on its islands since last year, piling more pressure on its debt-ridden economy, the United Nations said on Friday. An average of 600 migrants were arriving by sea each day, many of them fleeing poverty and conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya, at a time when the Athens government is facing its own economic crisis, said the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR. The European Union needed to com