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About 50.000 people massed in the streets of northern Greece's biggest city Thessaloniki on Sunday in a protest over the Macedonia name dispute between Athens and Skopje, police said. IMAGES
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
Migrants and refugees call for Germany's help as they remain stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border. IMAGES
Some migrants and refugees are managing to cross the Greek-Macedonian border even though Macedonia is refusing to allow transit to Afghans and has imposed stricter document controls on Syrians and Iraqis. IMAGES
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
The fighting in Sudan has caused more than 100,000 people to cross the border, UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado says. UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, is estimating that more than 800,000 people could potentially flee to neighbouring countries as the conflict between Sudan's regular army and paramilitaries continues. SOUNDBITE
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