Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising with over 8,000 coming on Monday alone, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman...

Tens of thousands of people massed Monday in the eastern German city of Dresden in counter rallies over the anti-migrant movement PEGIDA, with one demonstrator left seriously injured in a brief clash between the two sides. Police said in a tweet that a PEGIDA supporter was...

 The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants Monday, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. In desperate scenes, several thousand people, many of them Syrians fleeing war, spent the night on the muddy...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Turkey the prospect of support for faster progress on its bid to join the European Union on Sunday in return for cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants and taking back those rejected by Europe. Speaking in Istanbul at a joint news...