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Europe tries to cut migrant air routes from Middle East to Belarus amid border crisis
According to the Centre for European Reform think-tank, between early August and mid-October, there were more than 15,000 attempts to cross the border illegally. The Polish authorities are accused of pushing would-be migrants back across the border; journalists, aid workers and others have been barred from visiting the frontier.