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In Croatia, 5,000 migrants have arrived in the country since Hungary imposed its crackdown, which included the building of a huge wall created to keep migrants out.

That route may soon close when Hungary completes the razor-wire fence it’s building on its 108-mile border with Serbia.

The Hungarian police announced Tuesday that the country has closed its borders to the influx of migrants and refugees attempting to cross into the European Union.

Numerous refugees and migrants are Syrians and Iraqis fleeing war in their homelands.

Nolan and Ellison have been pushing for even more – between 100,000 and 200,000 refugees to be relocated in the United States by the end of 2016.

More than 378,000 migrants have entered Europe this year, including over 256,000 crossing the sea to Greece and almost 120,000 braving the Mediterranean to reach Italy, according to the worldwide Organization for Migration. All member states except Britain, Denmark, and Ireland...

In the first “crowd-sourced” PMQs, Jeremy Corbyn asked questions that came from members of the public.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey officially submitted its list of candidates for a general election on November 1, following inconclusive polls in June. Since that time, the PKK has killed at least 120 Turkish soldiers and police.

The migrants, who started to enter Croatia early on Wednesday, were being registered with police in Tovarnik, near the border with Serbia.

Ban said at the news conference: “I was shocked to see how these refugees and migrants were treated, it’s not acceptable”.

A special train transporting 800 arrived near Zagreb from the border early on Thursday, but thousands more were waiting for trains in baking sun at a tiny station near the Serb frontier.

They are desperate to get around the border fence Hungary has thrown up along its border with Serbia, where tensions boiled into violence on Wednesday at the flashpoint Horgos-Roszke crossing, after around 500 refugees had been blocked on their march north.

A girl cries after coming in contact with tear gas during clashes between migrants and Hungarian police at the border with Serbia and near the town of Horgos.

Mr Corbyn said that while policy was “developing” he could not foresee a situation where Labour would campaign for a “Brexit” under his leadership.

The new laws make it a criminal offence, punishable by prison or deportation, to damage Hungary’s newly erected border defences.