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The Latest: Italy on track to take 100,000 migrants in 2016

A migrant girl poses for a photo inside a tent at the makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Friday, April 15, 2016. More than 11,000 people have been stuck at the camp for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
A migrant girl poses for a photo inside a tent at the makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Friday, April 15, 2016. More than 11,000 people have been stuck at the camp for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) A migrant girl poses for a photo inside a tent at the makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Friday, April 15, 2016. More than 11,000 people have been stuck at the camp for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

ISTANBUL (AP) – The Latest on developments in Europe’s migration crisis (all times local):

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3:15 p.m.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says Italy appears on track to take in at least 100,000 migrants from North Africa across the Mediterranean for the third straight year in 2016.

IOM spokesman Joel Millman says more than 6,000 people crossed the Mediterranean in the last week, with nearly all crossing to Italy – and only 300 crossing from Turkey to Greece, a route that has taken over 1 million people since the start of 2015.