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Struggling Germany urges neighbours to do more to ease refugee crisis
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Struggling Germany urges neighbours to do more to ease refugee crisis

Germany told its European partners they must take in more refugees on Monday as it struggles to cope with record…
Sawiris offered a Maldive island following refugee shelter pledge
Egypt

Sawiris offered a Maldive island following refugee shelter pledge

A businessman from the Maldives has offered his family’s island to Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who declared last week he…
Britain to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years
Egypt

Britain to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years

British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five…
Germany pledges 6 bn euros for refugees, France to take in 24,000
World

Germany pledges 6 bn euros for refugees, France to take in 24,000

Germany pledged an extra six billion euros Monday to help the record numbers of desperate refugees crossing its borders, with…
Austria to lift measures that let migrants cross from Hungary
World

Austria to lift measures that let migrants cross from Hungary

Austria said on Sunday it planned to phase out emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded against their…
Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary
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Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary

Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the frontier by a…
Migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed Hungary
World

Migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed Hungary

Thousands of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, bussed to the border by a Hungarian government that gave up…
Volunteer hotline saves desperate migrants from the Med
World

Volunteer hotline saves desperate migrants from the Med

From his office in Strasbourg in eastern France, Hatem Gheribi picks up the phone to a desperate woman who says…
IOM: 30-40 migrants drown after dinghy deflates off Libya
Egypt

IOM: 30-40 migrants drown after dinghy deflates off Libya

 About 30-40 people drowned in the Mediterranean after a dinghy carrying 120-140 Somalis, Sudanese and Nigerians deflated, causing panic on…
Hungary’s Orban warns of ‘tens of millions’ of migrants
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Hungary’s Orban warns of ‘tens of millions’ of migrants

Europeans risk becoming a minority on their own continent, Hungary's right-wing prime minister said on Friday, defending his country's hardline…
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