text: Lifejackets are seen abandoned by Syrian refugees on a beach after they crossed the Aegean Sea in a dinghy from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos, August 8, 2015. Some 124,000 refugees and migrants had arrived in Greece by sea at the end of July this year, a staggering 750 percent increase on the same period in 2014, the United Nations (U.N.) refugee agency detailed on Friday. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters