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The dispute came amid tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the conflicts in Yemen and Syria that Riyadh views as a bid by Tehran to expand its influence in the region.

The death toll from Thursday’s stampede at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Haj, has risen to 769.

Six people, including a Pakistani and three women, have been detained by Malaysian and Thai authorities as part of their probe into Thailand’s deadliest bombing at a Brahma temple last month that claimed 20 lives.

The issue is dominating Tuesday’s meeting of European Union interior ministers in Brussels.

Meanwhile, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report – released on Monday -accused the police in Macedonia of violence and ill-treatment of refugees streaming into the country from Greece on their way to northern Europe.

Bulgaria pleaded with Croatia on Friday to immediately open the Bajakovo crossing at the border with Serbia to Bulgarian-registered motor vehicles or redirect them to other operating checkpoints.

An emergency summit by European Union leaders is also scheduled for Wednesday.

Khalid said at the moment, the suspects will remain in Malaysian police’s custody to facilitate investigation and that they are working closely with Thai police.

It said that 66,000 asylum-seekers will be relocated from Greece and Italy, and 54,000 more in a year’s time. The Romanian news agency reported the country would have to take an extra 2,475 refugees. “They have to stay in the country they were distributed to”,...

Since the fighting broke out in 2011, more than four million Syrians have fled their homeland, according to the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.

Anadolu said the refugees would be returned to the provinces where they registered.

It orders checks on Syrians’ documents at the entrance and exit to each province and asks law enforcement to tell transport companies that Syrians are not allowed to leave the provinces where they have registered without permission.

One suggestion is for Greece, which has comprehensively failed to secure its borders, to hand over their border-control responsibilities to other more capable nations – a role for which Hungary has volunteered itself, reports N-TV.de. “When a government loses control...

Well first, because the “pull factor” for refugees and economic migrants from North Africa and the Mid-East is now super-charged by German statements and sentiments it is incumbent on Germany to properly register all the migrants who are now being funnelled to them...

Terence Pike, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia, told CNN that Croatian authorities had been prepared to handle only an influx of 500 migrants and refugees a day.