The week at a glance ... Europe

Exmoor, U.K.

Largest beast shot: Britain’s largest known wild animal, a 9-foot-tall red stag, has been shot dead less than a month after it was discovered. “Growing that big and that huge and that magnificent, he was a definite target,” said Richard Austin, the photographer whose images of the stag appeared in newspapers just a few weeks ago. “With a set of antlers such as this deer had, it was basically going to kill him in the end.” Austin deliberately did not reveal the location of the stag, dubbed “the Emperor of Exmoor,” for fear that hunters would target it; apparently a hunter found it anyway. The identity of the hunter is unknown. News of the stag’s death sparked a wave of outraged letters in the British press this week.

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EU guards Turkish border: The European Union is sending a force of armed guards to patrol Greece’s border with Turkey in an effort to halt a surge of illegal immigration into Europe. Because of EU sea patrols in the Mediterranean, migration and trafficking routes into Spain, Italy, and Malta were largely closed earlier this year. But the flow into Greece nearly quadrupled, as immigrants and asylum seekers from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and African countries crossed through Turkey. Greece has packed some 34,000 migrants into jails and camps in the past 10 months, in conditions the U.N. has called “inhuman and degrading.” Greece this week requested the EU troops from the Rapid Border Intervention Teams, which were created in 2007 but haven’t previously been deployed.