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#BREAKING Polish police detain 'over 50' illegal migrants near border: spokesman

#UPDATES Polish police say they have detained over 50 migrants who crossed into Poland from Belarus over the last 24 hours, and are still looking for others

#BREAKING Belarus says West 'provoking' migrant crisis to impose new sanctions

#BREAKING Belarus seeks 'joint response' with Russia on migrant crisis

#BREAKING Poland 'irresponsible' to blame Russia for migrant crisis: Kremlin

#UPDATE The Kremlin said Wednesday it was "irresponsible" to blame Russia for a migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, after Warsaw accused President Vladimir Putin of orchestrating the standoff

#BREAKING Merkel asks Putin to act in Belarus migrant crisis: spokesman

#UPDATE German Chancellor Angela Merkel has telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask him to get Belarus to stop the "inhumane" instrumentalisation of migrants, her spokesman said Wednesday

#BREAKING Migrant crisis on EU border is Belarus 'state terrorism': Polish PM

#UPDATE Poland says it has seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and had pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, after it accused Minsk and Moscow of trying to orchestrate a crisis on Europe's borders
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#BREAKING Poland-Belarus migrant crisis 'intolerable': UN

#UPDATE UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has branded the migrant crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus "intolerable" and said the asylum seekers should not spend another night stranded

#UPDATE UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday said the migrant crisis on the border between #Poland and #Belarus was "intolerable" and that the asylum seekers should not spend another night stranded u.afp.com/wJyb #BelarusBorder

#UPDATE EU and NATO member #Poland said Wednesday it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and pushed back hundreds of migrants to #Belarus, accusing Minsk of "state terrorism" by provoking a new #migrant crisis u.afp.com/wJtB