A ship crammed with thousands of mostly Syrian refugees docked in Greece's main port of Piraeus on Tuesday, after the government said it was stepping up efforts to ease pressure on an eastern island being overwhelmed by new arrivals. The Red Cross on Monday described conditions on the Aegean island - a short boat journey from Turkey where there are some 2 million Syrian refugees - as a humanitarian disaster. Interim Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said Lesbos was hosting 15,000 to 18,000 migrants, three to four times more than it could cope with.
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