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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.

Canada’s trade unions are committed to establishing a special fund with the Canadian Council for Refugees to help support the settlement of Syrian refugees in Canada. However, they have put significant financial strain on the many Edmonton families who privately sponsored...

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.

Those refugees has left their counties escaping the scourge of war that lasts for four years.

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.

About 3,700 refugees coming by train from Hungary via Austria have arrived at Munich central station by early Saturday evening, with another 3,000 still expected to come later in the night. So hundreds set off by foot, saying they would walk to the Austrian border, 170 km away,...

Numerous migrants enter the European Union through the Balkan Peninsula.

“We estimate that around 4,000 have arrived – and I don’t think that is the end of it”, said Helmut Marban, spokesman for the police in the Austrian province of Burgenland.

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.

The main cohort consists of Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population on earth.

It manifests itself not just through donations, but also through a number of private initiatives aimed at providing support to people when they arrive in Germany in a direct and down-to-earth manner.