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Europe Migrant Crisis - Sept. 24, 2015
September 24, 2015 10:21 AM
In Pictures: A look at Europe's Migrant Crisis
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Migrants carry an elderly woman as they walk on a field, after they crossed the border with Serbia, near Tovarnik, Croatia. European Union leaders could promise billions of euros in new funding for Syrian refugees at an emergency summit where they will also try to patch up bitter divisions over the migration crisis.
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Migrants sleep at transit camp in Gevgelija, Macedonia, after entering the country by crossing the border with Greece. A tide of refugees from the Middle East and Asia showed no sign of abating, after European Union leaders began the task of trying to prevent tens of thousands of people fleeing war or poverty from streaming unchecked through the continent.
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More than 260,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Greece so far this year, most reaching the country's eastern islands on flimsy rafts or boats from the nearby Turkish coast. Lesbos is the main destination for mostly Syrian migrants heading from Turkey to Greece.
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A small inflatable dinghy with a suspected smuggler on board is stopped by a Greek coast guard patrol boat, in Greece’s eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos.
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