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1. Greece illegally deported about 60,000 migrants to Turkey between 2017 and 2018, according to a report on the online news portal of the weekly German magazine Spiegel, published on Wednesday evening.
Turkey accuses Greece of not properly granting asylum status to migrants. Instead, the Turkish Interior Ministry claims that Greece illegally transported 58,283 people to Turkey in the 12-month period leading up to November 1, 2018.
Greece disputes these accusations, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsokasis says Ankara is playing games: "Those people who have exploited the refugee crisis for their own purposes should be more careful in their relations with Greece."
A representative of the Greek Foreign Ministry told the German news agency dpa that Athens had "denied such accusations many times".
This so-called "displacement" of asylum seekers is illegal under European and international law. The State is obliged to assess the asylum status of new migrants, and not send them to another country.
Where did these migrants come from?
According to Turkish documents, the largest proportion of migrants expelled from Greece were Pakistani, with the majority from Somalia, Algeria and Bangladesh. 4,500 were Syrians.
Turkish officials said they had sent most of the people back to their countries of origin, with the exception of the Syrians, who were sent back to the Turkish city where they had originally registered as refugees.
The governor of the Turkish-Greek border region of Edirne reported that more than 90,000 migrants were arrested between January and September 2019, well above the 30,000 people arrested in the same region in 2016.
2. A major earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Thursday. Initial measurements put its magnitude at 7.1, at a depth of 45.1 kilometers (28 miles).
The earthquake was registered at 16:17 UTC/GMT, 11:17 a.m. local time, with its epicenter in the Molucca Sea, 138 kilometers northwest of Ternate Island.
Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami warning after that for a relatively small area around the epicenter, although this step is not uncommon in cases where a tsunami does not occur.
The Indonesian Meteorological, Climate and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) has posted a tsunami warning on Twitter.
"The tsunami probably won't hit the ground, but we still need to be alert," Rahmat Triyono, a senior BMKG official, told local Kompas television.
"We have issued a tsunami warning warning that any tsunami is only estimated at a height of about 50 centimeters (about 20 inches)."quot;," he added.
The geophysical agency Ternate did not detect a significant increase in sea water levels.
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