Migrants shout slogans during a pro-migrant rally in Athens, on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015.
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Brian Burnham, assistant manager at Maya Cinemas, said the theater has been selling tickets for about two months. And while it wasn’t too busy this afternoon, Chatterly says tonights shows are already sold out.
Greek state ERT TV said two people have been reported dead from Wednesday’s incident, and about 70 have been rescued.
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But EU sources said most member states were reluctant to endorse a scheme without evidence that Turkey had successfully curbed the flow of refugees into Europe.
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On Dec. 4, Turkey reinforced the force protection component of its units in the camp due to increasing threats to their security. Their conversation came after Turkish troops were wounded when a training base in northern Iraq was hit by Daesh on Wednesday.
Turkish coast guards rescued the four other migrants.
Mareman Azad of Afghanistan was among 1,000 protesters in Athens on International Migrants Day.
The number of people displaced worldwide is believed to have surpassed 60 million this year, according to the United Nations.
The European unification project is seen as under threat amid rising populism and fears the EU’s Schengen passport-free zone could collapse over fears of unfettered migration and vulnerability to extremist attacks.
A report examining the European Union deal with Turkey suggested that the number of people heading to Greece had not dropped.
Some diplomats said the mechanism could also provide a way forward for central and eastern European member states including Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic who oppose obligatory quotas for relocating migrants agreed in September. The agency now estimates the one-million mark will be reached by Tuesday. The agency said about 5,000 crossed in the last week of November.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg says the numbers of immigrants had put “too much pressure” on Justice Minister Anders Anundsen, whose portfolio has been split with the creation of the new ministry.
“I have come to Lesbos and will stay through Christmas, to listen and learn the stories of refugees who are fleeing from war and persecution”, she said. She added that the situation “is now under control, but that does not mean it will not persist”.
By late November, Sweden had received almost 150,000 refugees, almost twice as many as past year.
Sweden has approved checks of travel documents for people entering the Scandinavian country in a move to try to stem the influx of refugees.
Despite that, the deputy head of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, who has led the EU executive’s negotiations with Turkey and attended the “mini-summit”, expressed hope that the deal would work.
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Leaders discussed incendiary proposals tabled by the European Commission this week creating an EU border and coast guard empowered to overrule national governments when the EU’s external frontiers are deemed to be inadequately secured.
