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Five children amongst 10 dead after migrant boat sinks off Greece coast

The state-run Anadolu Agency said the Turkish coast guard spotted the refugees Tuesday during a routine patrol off the coast of southwest Aydin province. “So you have to come back to that again and again and give them figures, give them data, show them”. Lesbos, with a local population of less than 90,000, temporarily hosted more than 200,000 refugees last month.

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On Tuesday, 11 migrants including three children drowned off the coast of Turkey when their boat sank. By July, more than 185,000 people applied for asylum in the European Union, and numbers will continue climbing.


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So far this year, 3,692 migrants have died while trying to reach Europe, including 32 Africans who recently perished trying to travel to the Canary Islands, an archipelago off Morocco that is part of Spain.


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And on top of those that made it, the organizations saying some 3,600 people died or went missing en route.

This is according to the latest figures compiled by UNHCR together with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp in northeastern Kenya, now houses some 350,000 people.

Hundreds have drowned or are missing.

The report also noted Belgium’s struggle to manage migrant movements toward Britain, and said the country lacks national legislation to process alerts signaled by the passport-free area’s main database.

In exchange, Turkey is to crack down on migrants leaving for Greece.

France’s anti-immigration National Front party won an unprecedented 27 percent in a nationwide vote in regional elections this month. UN High Commissioner for refugees Antonio Guterres told the Security Council they can not be blamed for the terror they are risking their lives to escape, reports Reuters.

Swing has publicly praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her open-door refugee policy and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has pledged to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the new year. How They Got There An impressive majority of the migrants reached Europe by ocean, a unsafe journey.

“If we are creative in using our visa policies to give temporary protective status to everyone so there is a measure of support there… then I think it is a manageable proposition”, he said.

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More than 800,000 have entered through Greece, 150,000 through Italy, and almost 30,000 through Bulgaria, according to the organization’s statistics.

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