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Thousands Of Migrants Flee As Fire Damages Greek Camp
Thousands of migrants were forced to flee to safety Monday when their camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was badly damaged in a fire apparently set on purpose, police said.
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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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New Clashes In Greek Island Hotspot Ahead Of Planned Migrant Returns
Three migrants were hospitalised today after a brawl in a camp on the Greek island of Chios, aid groups and media said, as the country prepared to begin returning migrants to Turkey under an EU deal.
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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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Migrants Protest To Be Let Through Greek-Macedonian Border
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.
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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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Hundreds Of Migrants March Out Of Greek Camp, Cross To Macedonia
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.
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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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Thousands Of Migrants Flee As Fire Damages Greek Camp
Thousands of migrants were forced to flee to safety Monday when their camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was badly damaged in a fire apparently set on purpose, police said.
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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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New Clashes In Greek Island Hotspot Ahead Of Planned Migrant Returns
Three migrants were hospitalised today after a brawl in a camp on the Greek island of Chios, aid groups and media said, as the country prepared to begin returning migrants to Turkey under an EU deal.
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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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Migrants Protest To Be Let Through Greek-Macedonian Border
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.
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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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Hundreds Of Migrants March Out Of Greek Camp, Cross To Macedonia
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.
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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.
