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A key suspect in last month's bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, Thai police said on Sept. 14.

A quip by former Greek PM Alexis Tsipras that there are no sea borders in the Aegean, an ill-advised and off-the-cuff response to a press question over his government’s shambolic response to refugee/migrant crisis generated an avalanche of criticism by political rivals this week.

What the previous coalition government couldn’t do in seven months to alleviate some of the biggest problems related to the migration crisis enveloping a handful of Greek isles was announced on Wednesday by the caretaker government.

The Romanian Embassy in Budapest said on Monday that Hungarian police have arrested 27 Romanians over the last week for their alleged involvement in human trafficking.

The Austrian authorities also confirmed the detention of two Romanian drivers on Saturday night.

The situation in the capital of Lesvos island, Mytilene, was explosive on Sunday morning after groups of third world nationals clashed between them exactly outside the coast guard headquarters.

Some countries are more emotional than others, according to a Gallup poll conducted via phone interviews to 150,000 adults in 148 countries around the world. The study indicated the most emotional people in the world are predominantly in Latin America.

Hundreds of people are feared dead as a boat packed with migrants sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday.

According to reports, the sinking occurred off the coastal city of Zuwara, The Daily Star Lebanon informs.

The rescue operations are ongoing, with around hundred of the illegal migrants having survived.

Central Athens’ Victoria Square was again turned into a makeshift migrants’ camp overnight on Thursday, as dozens of third country nationals, including women and children, filled the open site. Most of the people described themselves as Syrian refugees, although there were several groups of young Afghan, Iraqi and even Pakistani men.

The Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings has launched the 2015 Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report and Scorecard, which evaluates access to and usage of affordable financial services across 21 countries. According to Brookings? FDIP analysis, Turkey ranked sixth among the countries for its financial inclusion efforts. 

The latest on the “migrant front” on Thursday again witnessed heightened tensions amongst congregated third country nationals on the island of Kos, while a large ferry boat unloaded another 2,500 refugees on a Piraeus dock.