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Friday, August 21, 2015

Macedonian police fire tear gas to drive back migrants, refugees on border

GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) - Riot police in Macedonia fired tear gas on Friday to disperse thousands of migrants and refugees trying to enter the Balkan country from Greece, a Reuters reporter on the border said. Several thousand people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, many Syrian refugees, spent a cold night in no-man's land after Macedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and effectively sealed its southern frontier to migrants and refugees. ...


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