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Hungary’s parliament has approved tougher conditions for asylum seekers, including cutting allowed stays at reception centers from 60 days to 30 days and gradually reducing their social benefits and subsidies.

Human rights groups say the changes authorized Tuesday by lawmakers are meant to discourage refugees from seeking asylum in Hungary.

Julia Ivan, a lawyer with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, says Hungary is “forcing refugees into increasingly worse and unpleasant situations.”

According to the Office of Immigration and Nationality, 197 people were granted asylum or some other sort of international protection in January-April.

Some earlier proposals which, for example, would have given those in asylum detention centers as much space as inmates in prison, weren’t included in the current modifications.

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5:55 p.m.

Estonian border officials say they have detained seven Iranian migrants who managed to cross the Narva River separating Russia and Estonia in an inflatable boat.

Spokeswoman Kerttu Krall said Tuesday that six of the migrants — two men, two women and two children — were caught in the early hours of Saturday immediately after they had landed on the shores of Estonia.

A 23-year-old man managed to escape but was caught Saturday evening at the harbor of Tallinn, where he had hitchhiked with the apparent intention of catching a ferry to neighboring Nordic countries.

Officials said it was the third illegal crossing on the Estonia-Russia border this year. A total of 23 illegal crossings were recorded in 2015, down from 31 incidents in 2014.

The Narva River is on average only 300 meters (1,000 feet) wide and not heavily guarded by Russians or Estonians at some points, making crossing possible — though not easy — even by swimming.

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5:10 p.m.

Danish officials have rescued four men who tried to reach Sweden from Denmark after their boat sank in the sea between the two countries.

Police spokesman Henrik Moeller Jakobsen said Tuesday a helicopter picked up one man off the Danish island of Saltholm, and flew him to an intensive care unit. His condition was not immediately known.

The others were rescued from the shallow waters off another Danish island and were in a good condition.

Moeller Jakobsen said the men had set off Monday “somewhere along the coast.”

He said two of them were Moroccans, but didn’t further identify the men.

It was the first known incident where migrants try to reach Sweden by sailing on their own. Police say more than two dozen migrants have attempted to walk on the bridge and tunnel connecting the two countries.