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At the Greece-FYR Macedonia border itself – reported calm after chaotic scenes late last week – people are now crossing in groups of up to 300-400 and then travelling onwards by train or bus to Serbia.

Amnesty worldwide led condemnations of the Macedonian authorities saying: “Every country has the power to patrol its own borders, but this kind of para-military response is an unacceptable push-back in violation of global law”.

The crowds, including many infants, waited with little food and water under a scorching Sunday.

Singling out the strain on Greece, the United Nations has called for urgent action to address the crisis.

Other migrants have complained of preferential treatment.

Spindler noted that Greece faces an economic crisis, but called on its government to help global organizations like UNHCR take a more active role in places like the overburdened island of Kos.

Almost 110,000 migrants have been tracked getting into the EU in July by irregular means, official knowledge confirmed on Tuesday, setting a record because the inflow continues, notably of Syrians reaching Greek islands from Turkey.

Vessels from the Italian and Irish navies and humanitarian agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) saved about 400 people from the fishing boat, thought to have been carrying up to 600 people, mostly Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war.

The island is the latest flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis as tempers between different nationalities flared yesterday, causing migrants to scuffle amongst each other before being beaten back by police.

Michel Allatuain waited beneath the 14th century fortress at the port of this Greek island on Thursday, desperate for a ferry ticket to the European mainland and a better life. Public spending throughout Greece, including on its islands, has been decimated and the basic...

Chris Buckler reports from Kos.

Flower-topped coffins containing the bodies of the recovered dead were loaded into black funeral vans.

It is feared up to 200 migrants may have drowned after an overcrowded boat they were on capsized in the Mediterranean.