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Macedonian police fire tear gas at migrants who were trying to pull down barbed wire from the border fence at the Idomeni in protest. Thousands of migrants have found themselves stranded in squalid conditions at the border between Macedonia and Greece after Macedonia and other Balkan states denied them passage to Germany and other destinations in northern Europe. IMAGES
Images released by Polish Police show the area along the border with Belarus close to the border town of Kuznica which has been entirely cleared of migrant encampments. Some 2,000 migrants who were living in freezing conditions at the border have been moved to a nearby warehouse. The West accuses Belarus of artificially creating the crisis by bringing in would-be migrants, mostly from the Middle East, and taking them to the border with promises of an easy crossing into the EU. Belarus has denied the claim, instead criticising the EU for not taking in the migrants. IMAGES
Police vans pass by and officers carry out checks on vehicles at a checkpoint at the entrance to the state of emergency zone near the Polish-Belarusian border, in Sokolka. Polish border guards, who are deployed along with the army and police, estimate up to 4,000 migrants are currently camped out on the frontier between Poland and Belarus in increasingly dire conditions and freezing temperatures. IMAGES
Police carry out checks on vehicles at a checkpoint at the entrance to the state of emergency zone near the Polish-Belarusian border, in Sokolka. Polish border guards, who are deployed along with the army and police, estimate up to 4,000 migrants are currently camped out on the frontier between Poland and Belarus in increasingly dire conditions and freezing temperatures. IMAGES
Dozens of migrants queue at Spain's Ceuta border to return to Morocco after an unprecedented 8,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave earlier this week. Most of the arrivals are young men and teenagers, who swam to the beaches of Ceuta to find work and escape the grinding poverty, unemployment and hunger back home in Morocco which has been worsened by the Covid pandemic. IMAGES
UK Border Force officials escort migrants in Dover's port, after picking them up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel. The British authorities have increased navy and air surveillance in the area as more than 1,000 migrants have arrived on Britain's shores in the last 10 days after crossing the Channel in small boats. IMAGES
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