ROME: Pope Francis left Rome on Saturday bound for the Greek island of Lesbos, on the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis.
Francis, 79, took off from Rome's Fiumicino airport at 7:20 a.m. (05h20 GMT) for the island, where hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants have arrived in recent months.
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