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Hungarian soldiers patrol along the temporary border fence in Roszke, Hungary, at the border between Hungary and Serbia, Sunday, September 13, 2015.

The ministers also agreed to implement a network of refugee camps which would be set up initially in Italy and Greece – where most refugees enter through – and later would be expanded overseas, in Middle Eastern and African countries.

Greece’s caretaker government chartered two extra ferries and sent additional staff to Lesbos to speed up the registration and ease overcrowding on the island, where more than 20,000 refugees and migrants had been living after arriving on dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast.

Greece, Italy and Hungary are too overwhelmed to participate.

The Greek island of Lesbos is “on the verge of explosion” with violence erupting as the more than 15,000 mainly Syrian refugees push local resources to the limit, the immigration minister said Monday.

The child was on board a boat full of refugees trying to make it to safety in Europe.

The region said people were arriving faster than accommodation could be found for them, with the German railway operator asked to provide a train for refugees to sleep in. I would like to express my thanks to all DB employees and volunteers at stations throughout Germany.

Europe’s refugee crisis has taken a new dimension in Germany with the arrival of over 8,000 asylum-seekers in the southern state of Bavaria from Hungary in one single day. “We’re all human. No-one is illegal”.

“European countries, which turned the Mediterranean Sea – the cradle of ancient civilisations – into a migrant cemetery are party to the crime that takes place when each refugee loses their life”, he said in a speech.

“Basically we are acting according to the rules”, Pangl said.

Numerous migrants enter the European Union through the Balkan Peninsula.

It has partnered with Citizens United Kingdom to launch a resettlement project which needs people to lobby local councils to increase numbers of refugees resettled in their area, as well as helping personally welcome them and host them.

The shadow home secretary said that within 24 hours of her asking councils in England, Scotland and Wales asking if they would be prepared to help in providing places for refugees, more than 40 had written back offering support.

Across Germany at the weekend, banners were hoisted at Bundesliga football matches that said simply “Welcome Refugees”. Cameron said specific details of the resettlement plan would be announced next week. Non-EU nations akin to Serbia and Macedonia have been shuttling...

Once across, the Hungarian police shepherd them toward a roadside meeting point beside the maize fields, where buses roll up to take them to a nearby registration centre, on the next short leg of their tortuous road north.