BERLIN
(AP) — The latest news as countries across Europe cope with the arrival
of thousands of migrants and refugees. All times local (CET):
10:30 a.m. |
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missions over the past 24 hours in the eastern Aegean Sea. The people, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, were found in small boats near the islands of Lesbos — which accounts for nearly one in two migrant arrivals in Greece — Samos, Kos and the islet of Agathonissi.
More than 15,000 refugees and migrants are stranded on Lesbos, awaiting screening before they can board a ferry to the Greek mainland — from where they head north through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary to seek asylum in more prosperous European countries.
A ferry carrying some 2,500 migrants from Lesbos is due in Athens later Tuesday.
