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Croatia on Friday began busing thousands of migrants and refugees to its northeastern frontier with Hungary, with at least two coachloads crossing the frontier, an AFP correspondent said.

Slovenia Prime Minister Miro Cerar tweated Thursday that his country is committed to protecting the EU’s external borders.

“We are so exhausted”, said Hikmat, a bare-footed 32-year-old Syrian woman from Damascus, after a journey, like many others, by sea and then through the Balkans to the border between the two former Yugoslav republics. They estimate that more than 300,000 have passed...

Refugees wait inside the train that will bring them to the capital Zagreb in Osijek, near Hungarian border in Croatia.

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.

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

From Wednesday night more than 3,500 migrants were transported by buses towards the Croatian border crossings Bezdan and Sid, with the financial assistance of the UN’s worldwide Organization for Migrations. “They have the same obligations as Croatia to keep people...

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.

“We will repair the fence, in fact we will put up a stronger fence“, he said.

“This is going to require cooperation with all the European countries and the U.S. and the worldwide community in order to ensure that people are safe, that they are treated with shared humanity and that we also may have to deal with the source of the problem which is the...

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.