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He said Syrian peace is a priority, and suggested that he would be willing to negotiate with Assad to secure the future of the country.

Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec says Friday that Slovenia was not informed in advance of Hungary’s move and that the fence was “not necessary”.

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

Rather than claiming asylum in the first safe European Union country they reach, most head on toward wealthy northern states.

The decision may disappoint those who want a stronger response to the Syrian refugee crisis and anger those who fear it could open the nation up to terrorist attacks.

Their nationalities were not immediately known.

Reps. John Conyers Jr. and Zoe Lofgren, who are the two top House Democrats on the committee dealing with immigration, also said the U.S. should take a total of 200,000 refugees, or almost three times the number accepted in 2014.

European interior ministers return to the table in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon for another round of talks on the deeply divisive issue of migration quotas. After last week’s meeting, Luxembourg’s Jean Asselborn, who is minister for immigration and asylum as well as...

He subsequently granted the Hungarian army additional powers to deal with the crisis. “Hungary will not allow illegal immigrants to cross its territory”, the advertisement said in both English and Arabic.

The White House has already taken in 1,500 Syrian refugees since 2011, a small number critics say [Xinhua].

Some, like the now infamous photograph of Syrian man Laith Majid in tears clutching his two children just off the Greek Island of Kos, have ended happily.

The hope of thousands of refugees and migrants of reaching western and northern Europe have been dashed yet again following Slovenia’s decision to temporarily suspend railway traffic from Croatia.

The Hungarians weren’t able to register many of them because they refused to fill out the paperwork, he said.

We call upon the Obama Administration to pledge to accept at least 65,000 refugees from Syria for resettlement in the United States by 2016. Germany allowed 20,000 migrants into the country over the weekend and is preparing for 800,000 this year.