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Migrants Seek New Routes Into Balkans After Formal Borders Sealed
After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, clambering through forests and over hills under the cover of darkness.
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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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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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Refugee Protests At Border, Islands: Greece
Refugees and migrants in Greece staged protest today at the country's border with Macedonia and on islands near the Turkish coast, with officials still unsure when an international agreement to reduce migration will take full effect.
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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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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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Border Agency Director Troubled By Internal European Union Fences: Reports
The head of the European Union's border agency is worried about countries building border fences within the EU to try to curb a surge of migrants, he told an Austrian newspaper.
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Stranded Migrants Clash With Police on Greek-Macedonian Border
Macedonian policemen fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding passage to wealthier northern Europe.
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EU Pushes to End Migrant Chaos With Balkans Plan
The EU on Monday pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centres along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to end rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal with the crisis.
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Some 7,600 Migrants Entered Macedonia in Last 12 Hours: Report
Around 7,600 migrants entered Macedonia in just 12 hours overnight -- a record according to a UN official quoted by Macedonia's state news agency Friday.
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Macedonia Allows All 1,500 Migrants at Border to Enter From Greece
More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday without any attempt by the police to stop them, an AFP reporter said.
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Mediterranean Migrant Crossings to Europe Hit 150,000 in 2015: International Organization for Migration
Some 150,000 migrants and refugees have so far this year made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, and more than 1,900 of them have died, the International Organization for Migration said today.
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Migrants Seek New Routes Into Balkans After Formal Borders Sealed
After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, clambering through forests and over hills under the cover of darkness.
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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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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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Refugee Protests At Border, Islands: Greece
Refugees and migrants in Greece staged protest today at the country's border with Macedonia and on islands near the Turkish coast, with officials still unsure when an international agreement to reduce migration will take full effect.
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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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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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Border Agency Director Troubled By Internal European Union Fences: Reports
The head of the European Union's border agency is worried about countries building border fences within the EU to try to curb a surge of migrants, he told an Austrian newspaper.
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Stranded Migrants Clash With Police on Greek-Macedonian Border
Macedonian policemen fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding passage to wealthier northern Europe.
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EU Pushes to End Migrant Chaos With Balkans Plan
The EU on Monday pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centres along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to end rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal with the crisis.
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Some 7,600 Migrants Entered Macedonia in Last 12 Hours: Report
Around 7,600 migrants entered Macedonia in just 12 hours overnight -- a record according to a UN official quoted by Macedonia's state news agency Friday.
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Macedonia Allows All 1,500 Migrants at Border to Enter From Greece
More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday without any attempt by the police to stop them, an AFP reporter said.
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Mediterranean Migrant Crossings to Europe Hit 150,000 in 2015: International Organization for Migration
Some 150,000 migrants and refugees have so far this year made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, and more than 1,900 of them have died, the International Organization for Migration said today.
