Asylum seekers protest for 2nd day on Greek island

Asylum-seekers demonstrated on the Greek island of Lesvos for a second day to protest increasingly dire living conditions in and around the island's massively overcrowded migrant camp and delays in Greece's asylum application process.
The protest by about 300 asylum-seekers, most of them from Afghanistan, Tuesday came a day after riot police used tear gas to disperse several hundred residents of the Moria camp who planned to march to the capital of Lesvos.
Conditions in the severely overcrowded island camps have deteriorated dramatically in recent months. On Lesvos, more than 19,500 asylum-seekers are living in and around the Moria camp, which was built to house 2,840 people.
The situation has increased tension with island residents, who have called for the camp's residents to be transferred away. Local officials have called on the Greek government to declare a state...