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His first win of the season came at the Players Championship, where he sunk a birdie on the first extra hole, after a three-hole playoff, to win.

Terence Pike, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia, told CNN that Croatian authorities had been prepared to handle only an influx of 500 migrants and refugees a day.

The White House has already taken in 1,500 Syrian refugees since 2011, a small number critics say [Xinhua].

Numerous refugees and migrants entering Croatia try to move on to Slovenia, but the authorities there have been sending them back and have stopped all rail traffic between the two countries.

Fed up with waiting for transport to continue their journey, huge crowds at the Croatian border town of Tovarnik pushed past police lines. Some kept travelling, and reached Slovenia overnight.

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.

After a week of build-up, debate and second-guessing, the US Federal Reserve chose to keep interest rates on hold.

President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to prepare for at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, the White House said on Thursday.

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.

We call upon the Obama Administration to pledge to accept at least 65,000 refugees from Syria for resettlement in the United States by 2016. Germany allowed 20,000 migrants into the country over the weekend and is preparing for 800,000 this year.

Croatia says that seven of its eight borders with Serbia have been blocked.

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

There are only two more meetings left for the Fed this year – in October and December – and it’s likely that the Fed might want to see a few more employment reports and monitor the Chinese markets before making the decision.

She cited concerns with market instability in Asian markets like China, where a market shakeup late last month sparked by the country deflating its currency, the yuan, caused acute anxiety with global investors and led some to worry that the United States could fall into another...