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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

EU to provide humanitarian funding for refugees in Greece

[Afghan migrants walk towards the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. More than 11,000 people have been waiting at this border point for over a month hoping it would reopen. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)]ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Commission says it will be providing 700 million euros in emergency humanitarian funding for Greece until 2018 to help it deal with the massive refugee crisis that has seen tens of thousands of people stranded in the country — the first time such funding has been used to help a European Union member.


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