BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The latest developments in the tens of thousands of migrants flooding into countries across Europe. All times local (CET): ___ 10:55 a.m. UNICEF says the number of women and children fleeing through Macedonia has tripled in the past three months. The U.N.'s children's agency said Tuesday in Geneva that some 3,000 people are passing daily through the former Yugoslav republic — and roughly one in eight is a pregnant woman. Citing Macedonia Interior Ministry figures, UNICEF says four in five of the migrants come from Syria. Since June, more than 52,000 people have been registered in the town of Gevgelija on the Greek border. The agency says it is dispatching water bladders and two 72 sq. meter (775 sq. foot) tents to Skopje, the Macedonian capital. ___ 10:45 a.m. Greece's coast guard says it has rescued more than 1,000 migrants and refugees from the sea off the coasts of eastern Aegean islands in a single day, as the flood of people fleeing war and poverty to seek shelter in the European Union continues unabated. The coast guard said Tuesday it had picked up 1,192 people in 31 separate search and rescue operations from Monday morning to Tuesday morning off the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi, Farmakonissi, Kos and Megisti. The numbers do not include hundreds more who reach the islands themselves from the nearby Turkish coast each day, usually in overloaded inflatable dinghies. The number picked up from the sea in a single day is usually in the hundreds. Join the conversation about this story »
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