Ghetto

Many refugees from the 1992-95 war in former Yugoslav Bosnia had already settled in the neighbourhood, he said.

"I remember those white sheets, so clean and nice, coming from a refugee camp with dust and everything," said Avni, now 30, who spoke on condition his real name not be disclosed.

"It was basically a country where you could heal from the war and feel welcome."

Australian Celtic punk-rock act The Rumjacks are celebrating their 10-year anniversary with a tour of Europe, revisiting career milestones and presenting their brand-new album, "Saints Preserve Us." They will be performing at Athens's Piraeus Academy on Saturday and at the Ghetto bar in Patra on Sunday, with doors opening at both venues at 8.30 p.m.

Vox - In Denmark, children over the age of 1 who live in low-income, heavily Muslim immigrant communities that the government classifies as "ghettos" will soon be subject to mandatory training in "Danish values."

Sixty-one illegally built dwellings in the Roma ghetto of Maksuda, Varna (in NE Bulgaria) are to be demolished starting Thursday.

There has bee some controversy over the number of inhabitants.

Deadly shootings by homegrown Islamists have cast a light on France's "geographical, social and ethnic apartheid", Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Jan. 20 in one of the starkest indictments of French society by a government figure.