Migrants in Europe

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Germany, he warns, cannot go on indefinitely being treated “as a waste-paper basket with a limitless capacity for the unwanted waste of the world.”

While Croatia is happy to let people pass through, Hungary and Slovenia say allowing the migrants to cross their borders would violate European Union rules.

The 50-minute conversation marked the first time that American and Russian defense chiefs have spoken in more than a year amid U.S. anger over Russian invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

Having finished construction of a razor-wire fence along its border with Serbia, Hungary now plans to extend it to Romania.

At least 28 people seeking a better life in Europe drowned Sunday as they attempted a wind-swept sea crossing from Turkey to Greece

The migrant crisis is “probably the biggest challenge for the European Union in its history,” Germany’s foreign minister declared Friday

When it comes to the current migrant challenge, the U.S. and Europe are clearly in different places.

ROSZKE, Hungary— Several hundred Arabs, Asians and Africans tired of waiting for buses broke through Hungarian police lines near the Serbian border Monday and marched north on the main highway to Budapest as authorities once again demonstrated an ina...

NEW YORK— The United States and the European Union project themselves as models for the world when it comes to democracy and human rights. Yet a common issue — migration — is bitterly dividing each of them, testing whether they can maintain solid...

HAJDUKOVO, Serbia— A Pakistani identity card in the bushes, a Bangladeshi one in a cornfield. A torn Iraqi driver’s license bearing the photo of a man with a Saddam-style mustache, another one with a scarfed woman displaying a shy smile.Documents sca...

HEGYESHALOM, Hungary— Hungary permitted migrants to use normal train services to move closer to Western Europe through its porous western border Sunday, abandoning the visa checks it previously used to prevent them from easily reaching Austria and Ge...

Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding at its borders at the moment.

BUDAPEST, Hungary— Thousands of exhausted, elated migrants reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria on Saturday, completing epic journeys by boat, bus, train and foot to escape war and poverty.Before dawn, they clambered off a fleet of...

As Europe struggles with a humanitarian crisis the like of which it hasn’t seen for decades, the media coverage of the refugees dying to get to the continent has been changing in tone.

Surprised riot police scrambled for their helmets as the huge crowd suddenly surged from the front of the train.

The photo of the dead 3-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting.It captures everything we don’t want to see when we tap our phones or open our newspapers: a vicious civil war, a refugee crisis, the death of an innocent.Largely because of soc...

BRUSSELS— French and German leaders reminded other European countries Monday of their shared responsibility toward refugees, as one official blamed harsh government policy for the deaths of dozens of migrants crammed into a truck.An emergency meeting...