Greek Border Migrants

Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.

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.

Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on Sunday, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugees back.

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.

As thousands of migrants languish on Greece's border with Macedonia following the closure of the Balkans route to western Europe, Athens has been gripped by another controversy -- what ministers call its neighbour to the north.

Hundreds of migrants marched out of a Greek transit camp, hiked for hours along muddy paths and crossed a rain-swollen river to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, where they were detained on Monday, authorities said.

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.

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.

Desperate and freezing, migrants scramble over each other to grab food thrown out from the back of a van. It has been a long, cold night on the Greek-Macedonian border.

Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who stormed the border from Greece today, tearing down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans.

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.

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.

Greek Captain Argyris Frangoulis lifts his binoculars and with eyes fixed on the Aegean Sea horizon, steers his patrol boat out near the Turkish border to a dinghy full of stranded refugees.

Left-wing protest groups in Greece are planning two days of demonstrations at the country's border with Turkey, to call on authorities to ease transit restrictions in the wake of two deadly boats sinking that left at least 46 migrants and refugees dead.

A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul Monday

Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.

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.

Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on Sunday, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugees back.

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.

As thousands of migrants languish on Greece's border with Macedonia following the closure of the Balkans route to western Europe, Athens has been gripped by another controversy -- what ministers call its neighbour to the north.

Hundreds of migrants marched out of a Greek transit camp, hiked for hours along muddy paths and crossed a rain-swollen river to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, where they were detained on Monday, authorities said.

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.

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.

Desperate and freezing, migrants scramble over each other to grab food thrown out from the back of a van. It has been a long, cold night on the Greek-Macedonian border.

Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who stormed the border from Greece today, tearing down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans.

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.

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.

Greek Captain Argyris Frangoulis lifts his binoculars and with eyes fixed on the Aegean Sea horizon, steers his patrol boat out near the Turkish border to a dinghy full of stranded refugees.

Left-wing protest groups in Greece are planning two days of demonstrations at the country's border with Turkey, to call on authorities to ease transit restrictions in the wake of two deadly boats sinking that left at least 46 migrants and refugees dead.

A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul Monday