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"Facing Migrant Crisis, EU Makes a Dubious Deal With Turkey" is from the March 10, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Steven Erlanger and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Islamic State Using Migrant Crisis to Smuggle in Terrorists, German Official Says" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

Being forced from home is something no one wants to experience. But climate change is causing flooding, new weather patterns, and destruction to houses and cities. It can make resources such as food or clean water hard to come by. It can even wipe out entire communities.

Beneath the stars, on a stony beach, stand two brothers. They are wearing lifejackets that are too big for them and their most precious belongings are sealed in waterproof bags tucked inside the rucksacks on their backs. Turkey is behind them. Two or three kilometres' swim away is the Greek island of Samos, now only a smudge in the moonlight.