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More than 378,000 migrants have entered Europe this year, including over 256,000 crossing the sea to Greece and almost 120,000 braving the Mediterranean to reach Italy, according to the worldwide Organization for Migration. All member states except Britain, Denmark, and Ireland...

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”.

“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...

“But in the interests of the cohesion of society in the country, we should do everything to significantly reduce the influx of refugees again soon”, he added.

Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said on Tuesday that 277 migrants had so far entered Croatia from Serbia following Hungary’s border closure.

The head of Germany’s refugee office, which has been criticised for its handling of record numbers of asylum seekers, has resigned, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Germany took in 218,000 in the first seven months and, amid last week’s scenes of migrants heading westward on foot from Budapest’s jammed train station, expects as many as 800,000 for the full year.

Asked Wednesday if Russia plans to create a base in Syria, Gen. Nikolai Bogdanovsky, a deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian military, said, according to Russian news agencies, that “there are no such plans as of today, but anything may happen”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow will continue supporting the Syrian government with military and technical aid in its fight against terrorists such as the Islamic State.

Syrians have ended up around Detroit and southeastern Michigan, for example, where a flourishing Arab-American community has swelled by nearly 20,000 Iraqi refugees arriving over the past decade. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. It was decided by the White House to take in 5,000...

Hopes of a unanimous deal collapsed in the face of opposition from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania at the crisis meeting in Brussels, officials said. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the crisis is a “German problem”.

The new laws make it a criminal offence, punishable by prison or deportation, to damage Hungary’s newly erected border defences.

EU interior ministers will meet Monday to discuss a plan unveiled by European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker to share out 160,000 refugees across the bloc and ease the burden on frontline states.