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A diplomatic row escalated in Europe on Sunday as governments clashed over how to handle migrants making their way across the continent.

More worries about slower growth in China pushed commodities to two-week lows, with copper prices and industrial metals leading losses.

The Ministers were in agreement that complex and comprehensive solutions must be further explored to tackle the root causes of migration, which includes an effective return and readmission policy, the disruption of human smuggling networks and setting up multifunctional refugee...

Ministers in Brussels have voted by a majority to accept quotas to distribute people across Europe.

Meanwhile, investors continued to assess the US Federal Reserve’s decision to leave short-term interest rates unchanged.

Greek coastguard spokesman Nikos Lagkadianos said 11 people were rescued from the boat that sank and a twelfth swam ashore in the early hours. The survivors say there were a total of 46 people on board.

Several hundred asylum-seekers are camping out at the Turkish border with Greece, hoping that a meeting in Brussels will produce an agreement to let them into the European Union.

UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said: “This may be the last opportunity for a coherent European response to manage a crisis that is increasing suffering and exploitation of refugees and migrants and tension between countries”.

Ms Fleming said it is “essential” that the 120,000 additional places are approved this week for any relocation programme to be considered “credible” but claimed that any scheme can not be effectively implemented without the creation of “adequate...

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...

Wall Street was up on Monday along with a rebound in European stocks.

The border controls went into force late on Wednesday on the motorway connecting the Czech Republic to the eastern German state of Saxony, spokesman Christian Meinhold said.

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.

Citing security concerns, Austria partially shut a highway linking Vienna and Hungary on Friday.

The Slovenian authorities on Friday registered more than 1000 refugees that had entered the country while more than 700 were still at the Obrezje border crossing, 20 kilometres east of the Croatian capital Zagreb, waiting to be allowed in.