Brussels, 12/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - With some 70,000 crossing the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Europe in 2008, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has repeated its call to EU countries to help those who need international protection. These immigrants have “few opportunities to enter the EU by regular means,” said UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond at a press briefing in Geneva on Friday 9 January. “Thousands of people threatened by persecution and serious human...