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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

EU irregular migrant arrivals 1.2 million in Jan-Oct

There were some 1.2 million irregular entries to the European Union in the first 10 months of this year, four times more than in the whole of 2014, the bloc's border agency Frontex said on Tuesday. Frontex said in a statement that more than 150,000 people made the journey from Turkey to Greece in October, bringing the total arriving on Greek islands to more than 540,000 in the January-October period.


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