Clashes broke out between police and people at a migrant detention center in northern Greece, with 35 having escaped the facility before half of them were detained again.

Finland has announced plans to resume transfers of certain asylum seekers to Italy under a new EU-wide mechanism, becoming the latest European country to do so after Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Sweden has also been sending peo1

The arrests come after Spain's North African exclave saw a deadly border surge in late July, when tens of thousands of migrants entered Ceuta.

Dozens of migrants arrived or were rescued near Crete on August 20 and 21. The complete tally of people reaching Greece irregularly in those 24 hours is estimated to be well over 200, with some reports placing that number closer to1