Greece moves asylum-seekers to ease crowding at island camps
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have moved nearly 1,000 asylum-seekers from eastern Aegean islands to the mainland as part of efforts to improve conditions in overcrowded island camps. Most of the people on a ferry that docked Tuesday at Lavrio, near Athens, were from a temporary facility hastily built on the island of Lesbos to replace a squalid camp that angry residents burned down three weeks ago. Others came from camps on Kos, Samos, Chios and Leros. After arriving at Lavrio, t
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