Greek police on Wednesday restarted an operation to move migrants out of Idomeni, the squalid tent city where thousands fleeing war and poverty have lived for months.
A police source said they hoped to transfer "roughly the same number" of migrants (...)
Greek authorities began an operation at dawn on Tuesday to gradually evacuate the country's largest informal refugee camp of Idomeni on the Macedonian border, blocking access to the area and sending in more than 400 riot police.
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Migrants clashed with Macedonian police Sunday after trying to scale the fence separating Greece from Macedonia in the border town of Idomeni.
Macedonian police used tear gas, stun grenades, plastic bullets and later a water cannon in attempts to (...)
Her children are in Germany, safe in a refugee shelter with their father. But for their mother, stuck in an increasingly fetid, overflowing camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, the separation and the uncertainty of when — or if — she will see her (...)
Macedonia sent back hundreds of refugees to Greece on Tuesday, a day after they bypassed a border fence in a mass push to continue their journey north to Europe's prosperous heartland - a move Greece blamed on "criminal misinformation" possibly (...)
Macedonia's police and army were "taking steps" to return a crowd of migrants from the Greek refugee camp Idomeni and enhance security after they "illegally" crossed the sealed border on Monday, the Interior Ministry said, according to dpa.
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Macedonian authorities imposed further restrictions Sunday on refugees trying to cross the border from Greece, allowing only those from cities they consider to be at war to enter, Greek police officials said.
The officials said the restrictions mean (...)
At least 25 people drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece on Sunday, while Macedonian authorities imposed further restrictions on refugees trying to cross the Greek border, according to AP.
The Turkish coast guard launched a (...)
A regional governor called on the Greek government Saturday to declare a state of emergency for the area surrounding the Idomeni border crossing where thousands of migrants are stranded due to border restrictions along the route toward western (...)
Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounted over travel restrictions on migrants.
In a sign of widening divisions within the European (...)
Groups of frustrated migrants, including families with small children, walked along north-bound Greek highways Thursday hoping to reach Macedonia after authorities stopped their buses to ease a bottleneck on the practically blocked border, according (...)
Macedonia closed its border to Afghan migrants early Sunday, Greek police said, slowing the admission of refugees to a trickle and leaving a growing bottleneck of people stuck at their shared border, according to AP.
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Hungary's prime minister says the country is filing a lawsuit against the European Union objecting to a mandatory plan to distribute migrants among members of the bloc.
Viktor Orban said the suit would be filed later Thursday at the European Court (...)
Soldiers in Macedonia began erecting a metal fence on Saturday on the country's southern border with Greece, but the government said it had no plans to seal off access to refugees fleeing war and heading to western Europe.
Soldiers drove metal poles (...)
Soldiers in Macedonia began erecting a metal fence on Saturday on the country's southern border with Greece, described by an official as a "preventive" measure to better control the flow of migrants across the Balkans, Reuters reported .
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Migrants barred from crossing the Greece-Macedonia border held a fourth day of protests Sunday, as Macedonia's president criticized the European Union over the refugee crisis for a lack of financial support and data sharing, AP reported.
The influx (...)
AlQa'dah 6, 1436, Aug 21, 2015, SPA -- 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 (...)
