Greece Migrants Camps

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  Greek Police Move Migrants From Macedonia Border Camp

  Greek police on Monday began moving out migrants from a makeshift camp at Polykastro on the border with Macedonia, a local police official told Agence France-Presse.

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  Ramadan A Challenge For Migrants Trapped In Greece

  Expecting twins in a few months, Shahnaz Sadat is not obliged to fast for Ramadan -- but stuck in a migrant camp in Greece, she'd be hard put to even if she wanted to.

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  How Europe Built Fences To Keep People Out

  In early March, Europe's migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos squelched through a muddy refugee camp on Greece's border with Macedonia and peered through the barbed-wire topped fence that stands between tens of thousands of migrants in Greece and richer countries that lie to the north.

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  New Clashes On Greek 'Hotspot' Island Ahead Of Planned Migrant Returns

  Three migrants were hospitalised on Friday after a brawl in a camp on the Greek "hotspot" island of Chios, the ANA news agency said, as the country prepared to begin returning migrants to Turkey under an EU deal.

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  Greece To Employ Loudspeakers At Border After Rumour Chaos

  Greece said today it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants' camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel "irresponsible rumours" that the border is about to reopen.

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  Migrants Flood To Greek Camp After Rumours Border Will Be Forced Open

  Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumours that the closed frontier would be forced open.

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  Greece Starts Emptying Border Camp As New Arrivals Slow

  Greece said Saturday it has begun emptying the main migrant camp on its Macedonia border, as the huge tide of refugees flooding into the country slows to a trickle following the EU-Turkey deal.

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  Greece Steps Up Efforts To Move Migrants To Sheltered Camps

  Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with one person in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.

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  Greece Steps Up Efforts To Move Migrants To Sheltered Camps

  Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with two people in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.

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  Greece Says Will Fix Idomeni Camp Overflow 'Within Week'

  Greece aims to deal swiftly with the migrant overflow at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border where some 12,000 people are camping in miserable conditions waiting to cross.

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  Migrants Stuck In Greek Makeshift Camp Vow To Stay Put

  Refugees and migrants stranded at Greece's border with Macedonia vowed to stay put on Tuesday, hours after the European Union and Turkey hailed a tentative accord to stop a scramble by hundreds of thousands of people to reach Europe from war zones.

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  6,500 Refugees Stuck On Greek-Macedonian Border, 300 Let In

  Thousands of refugees are stuck on Greece's border with Macedonia, overflowing from a packed camp into the surrounding fields, as they wait for Macedonian authorities to let them continue their trek through the Balkans.

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  400 Refugees Leave Greek Camp, Prefer To Walk To Border

  Hundreds of migrants and refugees left an accommodation camp in northern Greece today, preferring to walk to the distant border with Macedonia in a bid to continue their trek to northern Europe, local police said.

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  Greece Says European Union Aid Means It Can Shelter 20,000 More Migrants

  Greece said on Monday the European Union had offered to pay the costs of accommodating 20,000 more migrants in temporary camps on its islands as the bloc struggles to improve its management of the flow of refugees across Europe.