MILAN — The Latest on Europe’s response to the inflow of asylum-seekers and migrants to the continent (all times local):4:30 p.m.Police on the eastern Greek island of Chios have detained 37 people following overnight clashes between migrants, police and local residents. Police said the trouble started Wednesday nights when migrants from a camp in the main town, Chios, allegedly broke into a liquor store. Authorities alleged that other migrants then broke into a fireworks store and launched fireworks at houses, whose residents gathered to confront them. Some 61,000 migrants are stranded in Greece after a series of Balkan border closures. ___1:03 p.m.A migration organization says that about 340 migrants have died or gone missing in four Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over the past two-and-a-half days.

Source: Washington Post November 17, 2016 15:39 UTC