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Refugees from Afghanistan, who were not allowed to enter into Serbia, wait for a permission to cross the border from Macedonia at a checkpoint near the Tabanovce transit center for refugees in northern Macedonia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Austria have agreed that the main screening of the migrants would take place in Macedonia on the border with Greece and that those who pass the control will be transported under police escort all the way to the Austrian border. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

In Norway, Iraqi migrants reunited with their runaway cat

COPENHAGEN – Iraqi migrants in Norway have been reunited with their fluffy white tomcat, which disappeared in late October on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Rehab Al Alaf told the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang on Saturday the nearly three-year-old cat named Kunkush is back with the family in Steinkjer, Norway — over 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) from where it ran away. She said volunteers found the cat on Lesbos, posted photos on social media and raised $1,640 to fund veterinarian and flight costs for it to be reunited with the family.

Rehab’s mother, Suva Al Alaf, told Norway’s Tronder-Avisa daily the family fled Mosul after threats by Islamic State militants. She and her five children trekked through Turkey with the cat in a basket, but it slipped away on Lesbos.

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