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The Hungarian government posted ads in Lebanese and Jordanian newspapers on Monday, threatening to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his “personal initiative” would see “generous” European Union quotas to bring in refugees from crisis-hit regions and spread them around the continent.

Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – the last of which has been strongly chided for its treatment of incoming refugees – all voted against the proposal.

Even in peaceful, consensus-minded Switzerland, however, the issue of asylum seekers is proving politically sensitive and the country’s biggest party, the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), remains strongly opposed to any measures that might encourage more...

Germany, which expects to admit 800,000 refugees this year, gave a nod to the Swiss model last week when Chancellor Merkel’s federal government agreed with German regional administrations on distributing refugees across the country and creating a network of centers to...

Russian Federation has delivered new arms including warplanes to Syria as the regime increases attacks on rebels, officials said Tuesday, in a sign that Moscow’s growing support for its ally is having an effect.

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...

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.

Fed up with waiting for transport to continue their journey, huge crowds at the Croatian border town of Tovarnik pushed past police lines. Some kept travelling, and reached Slovenia overnight.

On Thursday, Croatia shut seven of eight road border crossings with Serbia after more than 11,000 refugees overwhelmed the frontier over the past two days.

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.

Croatia closed all but one of its eight border crossings with Serbia after more than 13,000 people, who were turned away from Hungary, flooded into the country in a matter of days. The train with eleven carriages left Friday morning carrying hundreds to refugee centers in the...

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