Tag

On Thursday, Croatia shut seven of eight road border crossings with Serbia after more than 11,000 refugees overwhelmed the frontier over the past two days.

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...

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

Late on Thursday Croatian officials announced they were closing roads leading to seven border crossings with Serbia.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic called on the army to be on alert and act if needed to protect the border from the migrants, after chaos erupted Thursday on the border with Serbia in a rush to get on the few available buses and trains, the AP said.

Huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean have created a political crisis in the European Union.

In the fourth period, Pau Gasol led a 14-2 Spain run to turn that nine-point deficit into a three-point lead. “Until an opponent overcomes us, we will be there”.

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.

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...