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Boosting aid to regional states hosting refugees was key to tackling the crisis that has seen tens of thousands of asylum-seekers flood into Europe, Cameron said, reiterating his argument against charges that London was not doing enough.

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

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...

At least 13 refugees have been killed after a boat on its way to Greece collided with a ferry off the coast of Turkey, reports say.

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...

Numerous refugees and migrants entering Croatia try to move on to Slovenia, but the authorities there have been sending them back and have stopped all rail traffic between the two countries.

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.

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

Late on Thursday Croatian officials announced they were closing roads leading to seven border crossings with Serbia.

Huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean have created a political crisis in the European Union.

The summit was called with different purposes in mind, but by the time Balkan leaders reached Austria it was obvious that the refugee situation was more urgent than infrastructure deals. But critics will be disappointed that more decisive action was not taken, given the scale of...

Even if every single ISIS fighter in Syria and Iraq bailed on the movement to become a hidden refugee plan, it would be less than 1% of the 4 million refugees that have fled Syria.

This was a direct result of Hungary closing its border with Serbia, leaving thousands stranded.

PARIS (AP) – When Islamic State extremists lost control of a key crossroads town in northern Syria in June, some militants shed their jihadi garb and blended in with the flood of Syrians fleeing across the Turkish border.