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For the first time, after many months, the number of asylum seekers living in the camp of the Reception and Identification Center in Moria, Lesvos, fell below 6,000.

A huge cement Christian cross, which was built on the rocky shore of Apelli, under the castle of Mytilene in Lesvos, in honour of the people that drowned during the recent refugee and illegal immigrant flow, was destroyed on Sunday night. The perpetrators have not been known yet.

According to British site thetimes.co.uk, Greece is taking urgent action to tackle Islamist extremists who have infiltrated a large refugee camp on Lesvos and are alleged to be coercing migrants into joining Islamic State.