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Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew Friday as European Union foreign ministers held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation on the Turkey-Greece border and in Syria, where Turkish troops are fighting. CBC | World News
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Greek and Turkish police fire tear gas as migrants try to cross into Greece
Greek and Turkish riot police deployed on their shared border fired tear gas on Wednesday as hundreds of migrants tried again to cross into Greece, amid an escalating war of words between Athens and Ankara about what was happening. CBC | World News
Read More »Thousands of migrants mass at Greek border, more flee Syria
The UN says at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey’s land border with Greece, hoping to head into the European Union. CBC | World News
Read More »Shots fired as migrants try to cross into Greece from Turkey
Gunfire could be heard from the Greek side of the River Evros at the Turkish border on Saturday, as migrants attempted to cross the waterway to get into Greece. CBC | World News
Read More »Appeal court blocks Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ program for migrants seeking asylum
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. CBC | World News
Read More »Coastguard races to ‘multiple incidents’ in Channel day after record 90 migrants reach UK
THE COASTGUARD is responding to a number of “incidents” in the Channel, a day after a record 90 migrants crossed to Britain. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »More than 130 migrants killed after U.S. deports them to El Salvador, human rights group says
More than 130 Salvadorans have been killed after being deported from the United States since 2013, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, as it stressed the danger migrants face under the Trump administration’s hardening immigration policy. CBC | World News
Read More »Greece to boost border patrols, install cameras in effort to stop migrants
Greece is stepping up security on its porous land border with Turkey, used by thousands of migrants to clandestinely enter Europe, with extra guards supported by a network of powerful surveillance cameras, officials said Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »Migrants at Libya camp prevented from leaving between deadly airstrikes, report claims
The United Nations revealed on Monday chilling new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention centre in Libya, killing at least 50 people. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras
Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centres or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north. CBC | World News
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