September 13, 2015

Balkan immigrant rail tracks follow old Orient Express route

GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (AP) - There are no fancy dining carriages here, glasses of champagne or ace sleuth Hercule Poirot to solve a murder mystery. There are only hundreds of exhausted people crammed inside a dingy train, slowly moving along the same Balkan route where the legendary Orient Express used to ...

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