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Hungarian riot police fire tear gas at migrants

Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday at migrants demanding to be let through Hungary's newly shut EU frontier, while refugees at other Balkan frontiers clambered through cornfields in search of new routes. Hungary's decision this week to shut the European...

First migrants enter Croatia after Hungary seals border

Several dozen migrants entered Croatia from Serbia early Wednesday, the first to enter the EU country after Hungary sealed its borders to thousand of people entering every day, an AFP correspondent saw. The group of mostly Syrian or Afghan men, women and children crossed the border – which...

Obama: migrant crisis has worsened, requires cooperation

 U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the migrant crisis had worsened and required cooperation from European nations and the United States to address. Obama made his remarks during a meeting with Spain's King Felipe VI. The president said he hoped to visit Spain before the end of...

Syrians gamble with life to get to Europe

Images of a father struggling to hold his baby above the waves and of drowned Syrians washed ashore have not deterred Racha Sattout from gambling her life to seek sanctuary in Germany after fleeing a Syria ripped apart by war. For her and thousands of others waiting to cram onto rubber...