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The Latest: France Buses Asylum-Seekers From Italy
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATHENS, Greece — Nov 6, 2015, 6:37 AM E
The latest on the flow of tens of thousands of people trekking to Europe in search of a new life. All times local.
1:35 p.m.
France is busing asylum-seekers from elsewhere in Europe to small towns in the French heartland, after months of criticism that French authorities weren't doing their share to take in refugees and other migrants pouring into Europe this year.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that 18 men and one woman who fled Eritrea are being bused Friday from Italy to the Loire Valley region in western France. They are among 200 people France is taking from Italy and Greece this month, 300 next month and 400 in January, the statement said.
France has agreed to take in 30,000 refugees from around Europe as part of EU-wide agreements — compared with hundreds of thousands in neighboring Germany, and 4 million Syrian refugees taken in by Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.
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