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D. Macedonia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Macedonia is about the size of Vermont and has a population of about 2 million people.
C. Almost 39,000 migrants, most of them Syrians, have registered as passing through Macedonia over the past month. “We want to go to Germany to find a new life because everything has been destroyed in Syria,” said refugee Amina Asmani.
A. Many of the refugees fleeing wars in the Mideast and Afghanistan are going through Turkey where they board small boats to cross into Greece and its small Aegean islands. Morocco, Tunisia and Libya also are major transit points for Europe-bound migrants from sub-Saharan Africa as well as the Mideast.
B. The German government has reiterated demands for other European Union states to do more to help with the flood of immigrants. Meanwhile, defenses have been strengthened significantly around the French port of Calais to keep migrants from trying to get to Britain, some through the train tunnel under the English Channel.