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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.

He subsequently granted the Hungarian army additional powers to deal with the crisis. “Hungary will not allow illegal immigrants to cross its territory”, the advertisement said in both English and Arabic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The centers could register and screen those arriving, the United Nations agency said.

Croatia says that seven of its eight borders with Serbia have been blocked.

The Coast Guard officers who rushed to the site after being alerted by a Greek armed forces patrol recovered the girl’s body and rescued 12 people, reported Xinhua news agency.

There were desperate scenes at a railway station on Croatia’s eastern frontier with Serbia, where thousands were left stranded overnight under open skies.

The government has set up a crisis body to deal with the thousands of migrants who began transiting through Croatia after Hungary closed its border with Serbia and imposed a crackdown on migrants earlier in the week. The migrants would prefer the quicker route to Europe through...

But they have little choice after Hungary sealed off its southern border with Serbia on Tuesday and began arresting anyone caught trying to enter the country illegally.