Austrian rail link with Hungary to reopen, operator says
Rail services between Austria and Hungary will resume in both directions on Friday, Austrian rail company OeBB said on Thursday, after the link was cut for a week to reduce the flow of migrants into the country from Hungary.
Sep 17, 2015, 15:29 PM IST
EU Parliament backs refugee relocation plan
The European Parliament on Thursday strongly backed plans to relocate 120,000 refugees around the EU to ease pressure on Greece, Hungary and Italy, which ministers failed to agree on earlier this week.
Sep 17, 2015, 15:27 PM IST
Some 4,000 migrants enter Croatia in past 24 hours: Report
Some 4,000 migrants have entered Croatia from Serbia in the past 24 hours after Hungary sealed its border, national state-run HRT television reported on Thursday.
Sep 17, 2015, 11:55 AM IST
Hungary says 29 detained in border clash, including one ''terrorist''
Hungary said on Wednesday it had detained 29 migrants during clashes at its southern border with Serbia, and described one of them as an "identified terrorist".
Sep 17, 2015, 04:27 AM IST
If EU introduces migrant quotas, we'd have to accept them: Viktor Orban
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in remarks published on Wednesday that if the European Union decides to impose mandatory quotas of asylum seekers on member states, his country would have to comply.
Sep 17, 2015, 04:12 AM IST
Children separated from families in Hungary border chaos: Amnesty
Children were separated from their families by police in chaotic scenes as migrants broke through Serbia`s border with Hungary on Wednesday, Amnesty International said.
Sep 17, 2015, 03:39 AM IST
Hungary PM plans new migrant wall along Croatia border
Hungary`s Prime Minister Viktor Orban hopes to build a new wall along his country`s border with Croatia to keep migrants out, he told French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview to be published Thursday.
Sep 17, 2015, 01:51 AM IST
UNHCR urges Hungary to allow access for refugees, Serbia can't cope
The United Nations refugee agency voiced shock on Wednesday at Hungary`s turning back of refugees and preventing them from entering the European Union with water cannons and tear gas, noting that many were Syrian families.
Sep 17, 2015, 00:45 AM IST
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.
Sep 17, 2015, 00:30 AM IST
Hungary police fire tear gas at migrants at Serbia border
Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday at several hundred migrants protesting at being unable to cross the border from Serbia, AFP reporters said.
Sep 16, 2015, 21:12 PM IST
Croatia to allow free passage of migrants: PM
Croatia will allow free passage of migrants across its territory, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said Wednesday as a first group entered the EU member state from Serbia since Hungary sealed its borders.
Sep 16, 2015, 19:50 PM IST
Know all about European migrant crisis in 90 seconds- Watch
For many, the term European migrant crisis was just another jargon until the death of the three-year-old Syrian kid Aylan Kurdi, whose heartbreaking pictures jolted the world out of apathy, leading the countries to throw open the borders and pour in double the amount of aid for refugees.
Sep 16, 2015, 14:19 PM IST
First migrants enter Croatia after Hungary seals border: Police
About 20 migrants entered Croatia from Serbia early Wednesday, the first to enter the EU country after Hungary sealed its borders, police said.
Sep 16, 2015, 13:00 PM IST
Hungary police say 367 migrants entered Tuesday, all arrested
More than 367 migrants crossed illegally into Hungary on Tuesday, the first day after the country introduced tough laws on authorised entry, and all were arrested, police said Wednesday.
Sep 16, 2015, 12:21 PM IST
First migrants arrive near Croatian border
The first migrants arrived near the Croatian frontier on Wednesday, potentially carving out a new route through Europe after Hungary sealed its borders.
Sep 16, 2015, 08:42 AM IST
Refugees seek new routes as Hungary seals border
As Hungary threw up the barriers to stop thousands of refugees trekking over its border from Serbia and into the European Union, undeterred migrants on the roads simply began to think of other routes to take.
Sep 16, 2015, 04:18 AM IST
Anger as Hungary seals borders, Germany`s Angela Merkel demands refugee summit
Hundreds of desperate migrants were Tuesday trapped behind a razor-wire fence erected by Hungary, as Germany`s Angela Merkel called for an EU summit on the refugee crisis.
Sep 16, 2015, 02:15 AM IST
Anger as Hungary seals borders, Merkel demands refugee summit
Serbia urged Hungary on Tuesday to reopen its razor-wire border fence erected to stop a record wave of migrants, as Germany`s Angela Merkel called for an EU summit on the refugee crisis.
Sep 15, 2015, 23:48 PM IST
Hungary arrests 174 as new anti-migrant laws bite
Hungarian police on Tuesday arrested 174 people after harsh new laws came into force which punish "illegal border-crossing" with prison terms of several years, authorities said.
Sep 15, 2015, 21:56 PM IST
UN expects refugees to find new route avoiding Hungary
Refugees seeking asylum in the European Union may end up seeking a new route as a result of Hungary`s crackdown on entry, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday, and one refugee suggested it might be through Croatia and Slovenia.
Sep 15, 2015, 19:04 PM IST
