The Latest: EU agency reports sharp drop in migrants reaching Greece
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The latest news on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and migrants to Europe. All times local:
10:35 a.m.
The European Union's border control agency says the number of migrants arriving in Greece fell sharply in November, the first month-on-month drop in a year that has seen record numbers of asylum-seekers arrive in Europe.
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Frontex cited worsening weather and more restrictive border-control policies along the Western Balkan route as the apparent reasons for the drop.
Some 108,000 people arrived in Greece in November, down from 150,000 in October.
The Warsaw-based agency said 715,000 migrants arrived on the Greek islands through the end of November, 16 times more than in the same period last year.
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Most of the migrants are Syrians, followed by Afghans and Iraqis.
Frontex said the number of migrants crossing into Italy from Libya decreased for the fourth straight month.