WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Union's border protection agency Frontex has requested 775 more guards from member states to help Italy, Greece and other countries register migrants arriving from Libya and Turkey, almost doubling the size of the operation.
Warsaw-based Frontex said on Monday it was the largest number of border guards it had requested since the agency's launch a decade ago.
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