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Nearly 21,000 refugees and migrants arrived in crisis-hit Greece last week — nearly half the total number in all of 2014 — the United Nations said Tuesday.
“The pace of arrivals has been steadily increasing in recent weeks,” UNHCR spokesman William Spindler told reporters in Geneva, bringing the number to over 160,000 since the beginning of the year.
Between January 1 and August 14, 158,456 refugees and migrants crossed the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek islands, while another 1,716 came over the land border, the UN refugee agency said …. http://news.yahoo.com