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WORLD NEWS 9
Friday 11 March 2016
Migrants stuck at closed borders, others seeking new routes
ELENA BECATOROS ers who hope the closure
is temporary. Some didn’t
GEORGE JAHN make it. Turkey’s state-run
Anadolu news agency
Associated Press said five people, including
a 3-month-old, drowned
IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — when their speedboat
sank Thursday off Turkey’s
Desperate migrants and western coast en route to
the Greek island of Lesbos.
refugees piled up Thursday Nine people were rescued
from the boat, which was
in fetid fields of mud at a carrying Afghans and Irani-
ans, the agency said.
closed border crossing as NATO stepped up its op-
erations to try to stop the
officials warned that a well- smugglers, deploying five
ships in the Aegean Sea,
trodden route to Europe with plans to send more in
the coming days to moni-
used by hundreds of thou- tor the area near the Greek
island of Lesbos and areas
sands in the past year was farther south, said Jens
Stoltenberg, the secretary-
no longer available. general of the alliance.
Meanwhile, Greek police
With the closure of the said 81 economic migrants
from Pakistan and north Af-
migrant trail through the rica who had entered the
country illegally were de-
Balkans from Greece to ported back to Turkey.
Nearly 42,000 people are
more prosperous countries, stranded in Greece, in-
cluding 14,000 camped in
concern also mounted the mud near the Idomeni
crossing with Macedonia.
that people desperate for Nearly three days of rain
finally ended, but that did
sanctuary or jobs in Eu-
rope are already turning Children wait in line for food handouts during a rainfall at the northern Greek border station of Ido-
meni, Thursday, March 10, 2016. After nearly three days of rain, conditions in the refugee camp on
to smugglers to find other the Greek-Macedonian where about 14,000 people are stranded have deteriorated significantly,
with many of its residents struggling to re-pitch their small camping tents in slightly drier patches.
pathways. Government
(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
ministers and experts say
that Albania, Hungary, Bul-
garia and Romania could little to lift the misery for sodden logs to get them coughing heavily.
those staying in donated to burn. The fields have A crowd formed at a truck
become alternate tracks, pup tents in nearby fields grown increasingly fetid, of donated goods, with
and along railway tracks. with pools of water and men tossing bags of dia-
and officials Spain are in Long lines formed for sand- deep mud that sucks the pers, toilet paper, bottled
wiches, tea and soup at shoes off children. People water, yogurt and pre-
contact with Algeria and the Idomeni camp, which dragged their muddy tents pared meals to the cheer-
long ago surpassed its ca- to new locations, looking ing crowd. Dozens of pack-
Morocco to try to stop new pacity. Others warmed for a dry patch of ground. aged meals ended up
themselves at fires using Many people who have falling to the ground, with
routes from opening there. what dry wood they could spent days at the camp in cooked pasta and yogurt
find, or they poured oil on chilly temperatures were splattering in the mud.
At the same time, the flow
continued to the Greek is-
lands by boat from Turkey,
either by those who have
not heard the Greece-
Macedonia crossings are
no longer open, or by oth-
European Central Bank surprises with broad stimulus action
DAVID McHUGH ticipated, such as expand- the best answer to recent volatile. The Stoxx Europe depressing picture of the
AP Business Writer ing its monthly bond-buying questions about whether 50 blue chip index ended European economy.” In-
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) stimulus program to include central banks were reach- 1.8 percent lower after spik- vestors, he adds, “are be-
— European Central Bank corporate bonds. ing the limits of what they ing higher earlier. The euro ginning to question what
launched an unexpect- The ECB, the monetary au- can do. rose 1.5 percent to around central banks have left
edly broad array of stimulus thority for the euro coun- “We don’t give up in our $1.11 — though it usually in the locker if the global
measures Thursday aimed tries, is struggling to raise fight to bring inflation back falls in response to more economy slips back to-
at boosting a modest eco- inflation from a worryingly to our objective,” Draghi stimulus. wards recession.”
nomic recovery in the 19 low annual rate of minus said. He added that the Laith Khalaf, senior analyst More economic malaise in
countries that use the euro 0.2 percent toward its goal steps to increase bank at stockbrokers Hargreaves Europe is the last thing the
and nudging up danger- of just under 2 percent, lending would “reinforce Lansdown, said the use of global economy needs.
ously low inflation. considered healthiest for the momentum of the euro ever more unusual stimulus The region is a key mar-
The steps, which ranged the economy. area’s economic recovery measures was hard to see ket for major companies,
from interest rate cuts to ECB President Mario Draghi and accelerate the return as positive. from automakers Ford and
cheap loans to banks, in- said the bank’s decisions at of inflation to levels below, He said the fact the ECB is General Motors to technol-
cluded several measures the meeting of its 25-mem- but close to, 2 percent.” “still pursuing such extreme ogy companies Apple and
many analysts hadn’t an- ber governing council were The market’s reaction was monetary policy paints a Samsung.
