Migrant girl poses for photo as she waiting in line to get food at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. More than 12,000 people have been stuck her for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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MADRID (AP) - The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
6:10 p.m.
A Syrian refugee who has made it to Germany is back in Greece trying to get his family out of a makeshift refugee camp.
Bassel Al-Khalaf, 25, has been living in Germany for a year and a half. But for the last six days he has been staying in a tent at the refugee camp in the northern Greek border town of Idomeni, reunited with his wife, Hannaa Al-Ahmad, 24, and his 1-year-old daughter, Sahinas.
He says "I came to try and take them with me .... but I've been told reunions take a long time." Al-Khalaf plans to go to the German Embassy in Athens, having collected the necessary paperwork.
His wife and daughter had made it as far as Macedonia before a series of European nations shut their borders to migrants in March. Macedonian authorities pushed them back to Greece.
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3:40 p.m.
Spain's maritime rescue service says it has deployed ships and aircraft in a search for a boat believed to be carrying 27 people in the southern Mediterranean Sea.
The service said a Spanish Navy ship joined in the search Saturday for the boat that is thought to be transporting migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa.
Rescuers on Friday picked up 76 migrants, including 22 who had disembarked from a boat onto a small Mediterranean island and 54 who had been aboard a small boat.
Thousands of migrants try to reach Spain each year either by attempting to enter the country's north African enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta or by making perilous sea crossings to the mainland.
Migrant man with German passport Bassel Alkhalaf, 25, looks out from his tent where he has been reunited with his family at the refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. Bassel Alkhalaf came to Idomeni camp to be reunited with his wife Hanna Alahmad, 24, and daughter Shahinas, who both travelled from Syria and now stay at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, with some 12,000 others hoping that the border will reopen.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Migrant woman waits in line to get food at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. More than 12,000 people have been stuck her for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Migrant man with German passport Bassel Alkhalaf, 25, plays with his daughter Shahinas, in the shade of their tent, at the refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. Bassel Alkhalaf came to Idomeni camp to be reunited with his wife Hanna Alahmad, 24, and daughter Shahinas, who both travelled from Syria and now stay at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, with some 12,000 others hoping that the border will reopen. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Migrant girl poses for photo as she waits in line to get food at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. More than 12,000 people have been stuck her for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Migrant women prepare food inside of their tent at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. More than 12,000 people have been stuck her for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Migrant man with German passport Bassel Alkhalaf, 25, plays with his daughter Shahinas, in the shade of their tent, at the refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, April 16, 2016. Bassel Alkhalaf came to Idomeni camp to be reunited with his wife Hanna Alahmad, 24, left, and daughter Shahinas, who both travelled from Syria and now stay at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, with some 12,000 others hoping that the border will reopen.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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