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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.

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.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told this week that some of the young men the USA would accept “could easily be people who could be infiltrated by terrorists”. Our borders are not as porous as those between Syria and most of Europe.

Two dozen police in surgical masks and gloves have blocked access to train platforms for more than 400 refugees and migrants holding tickets to Vienna. About 300 are on a motorway, escorted by police.

Hungarian soldiers patrol along the temporary border fence in Roszke, Hungary, at the border between Hungary and Serbia, Sunday, September 13, 2015.

Indirect support for Assad would come from a country that has no qualms about it, thereby enabling the West to stick to its old he-must-go policy.

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...

While he told a Toronto audience this morning that it’s time to be less partisan, he laid the responsibility at Harper’s door.

Another employee had returned to the company after bearing a stillborn child only to shortly leave after she was listed on a “performance improvement plan”, the Times wrote.

One former Amazon employee said: “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk”. Employees also underwent extensive data monitoring on the job and were encouraged to report co-workers’ shortcomings.

Through the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, Ely and her colleagues found that the brain circuitry of non-dieters and historical dieters relating to reward responded better to romantic signals when they have eaten.

Scientists found that women with full stomachs were more responsive to romantic cues than those feeling empty.