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Macedonian troops fire stun grenades at migrants on border
Macedonian special police forces have fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe.
Migrant crisis: fYRoM closes border; tension on Kos; latest batch of refugees in Piraeus
The latest on the “migrant front” on Thursday again witnessed heightened tensions amongst congregated third country nationals on the island of Kos, while a large ferry boat unloaded another 2,500 refugees on a Piraeus dock.
Macedonia Declares Emergency in Two Border Regions over Migrant Influx
Macedonia has declared crisis situation in two border regions due to "an unprecedented flow of refugees from the Middle East" entering from Greece, MIA reported on Thursday.
Macedonia Declares Crisis on Border Over Refugees
Macedonia said it was deploying troops on the border with Greece, in a last-ditch move to stem to flow of refugees into and across the country.
The aim was to enhance control of the border area, Ivo Kotevski, spokesperson of the Ministry for Interior, explained on Thursday.
Ferry carrying 2,500 migrants reaches Greek port near Athens
A ferry carrying about 2,500 migrants who had arrived clandestinely on Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast docked on Aug. 20 in Greece's main port of Piraeus near Athens.
Asylum Claims from Balkans Surge in Germany
Germany faced another increase in the number of asylum requests from citizens of the six Western Balkans Countries in July, despite repeated efforts by German and local authorities to halt the phenomenon.
Smugglers now using jet skis to ferry irregular migrants from Turkey to Greek isles!
With the UN calculating that 50,000 migrants — legitimate refugees and illegal immigrants — entering Greece in July 2015 alone, compared with 47,000 in all of 2014, smugglers are finding new and lucrative ways of trafficking people into the crisis-plagued country — presumably a first stop until more affluent “pastures” of northern Europe are reached.
Hungary's Border Fence to Redirect Migrants to Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia Says
The fence being built by Hungary along its southern border with Serbia would redirect the wave of migrants to Croatia and Bulgaria, the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.
"Serbia will build neither border walls, nor migrant camps"
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says Serbia will not build a wall along the border with Macedonia to stem the tide of migrants crossing into the country.
Serbia will also not build migrant camps on its territory, he told the Belgrade-based daily Danas.
"83,000 refugees registered, 500 asked for asylum"
Serbia has so far registered 83,000 migrants and 500 of them applied for asylum in the country, UNHCR representative in Serbia Hans Schodder said on Tuesday.
Turkish Authorities Detain 293 Illegal Immigrants at Border with Bulgaria
The Turkish gendarmerie in the border town of Kirklareli detained 293 illegal immigrants in the past five days.
The refugees were uncovered near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in the forest next to the town of Demirkoy from where they intended to cross into Bulgaria and other European countries.
Migrant hit by train dies, 3 arrested in separate incident
A migrant injured in an accident on the Tabanovci-Kumanovo railway in Macedonia has died, the Interior Ministry in Skopje has said.
The victim passed away on the way to the emergency medical center in Skopje.
Merkel says migrants bigger challenge for EU than Greek debt crisis
Chancellor Angela Merkel on August 16 condemned a surge in German attacks on refugee shelters and warned that the issue of asylum could become a bigger challenge for the European Union than the Greek debt crisis.
Hungary plans to extend anti-migrant campaign to Serbia
The Hungarian government has announced it will "extend its anti-migration campaign to countries like Greece, Macedonia and Serbia," AP has reported.
These are "transit points used by the more than 120,000 migrants who have entered Hungary this year," the government in Budapest said on Thursday.
Migrants wait to catch morning train to Serbia (PHOTOS)
About 1,000 migrants from the Middle East were early on Friday waiting in Gevgelija to continue their journey to Serbia, and then to the EU.
Several hundred of them, mostly refugees from Syria, were spending the night next to the railway tracks at the rail station in this town near the Macedonia-Greece border.