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Hungarian Parliament Grants Army Right To Use Force Against Migrants

Hungary’s parliament gave Monday the army and police sweeping new powers to keep migrants out as populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that Europe was being “overrun”. “They are overrunning us. They’re not just banging on the door, they’re breaking

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REPORT: ‘Scores’ Of Fighters Abandon Iraq, Surging Into Europe

Some Iraq soldiers are abandoning their posts and joining a wave of civilian migrants headed to Europe, raising new doubts about the cohesion of the country’s Western-backed security forces in the fight against Islamic State militants. Interviews with migrants and

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Migrants Spurn France, Say It’s Not Easy Enough To Settle

They dream of a better life in Germany, Sweden or Holland, but one country appears glaringly absent from the lips of refugees on their arduous journey to Europe: France. So why are refugees skirting Europe’s second largest economy, once seen as

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Thousands More Pour Into Austria As EU Migrant Crisis Deepens

Crowded aboard buses and trains, thousands more migrants flooded into Austria on Sunday from countries unable or unwilling to cope with a desperate human tide escaping war and poverty for a better life in western Europe. And new tragedy struck

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Germany Probes Syrian Asylum Seeker For IS Links: Report

German police are investigating an asylum-seeker on suspicion that he fought for the Islamic State group in Syria, newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported Sunday. The suspect is a Syrian national and lives in an asylum-seeker shelter in the northeast region

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Truckers Warn Of Cost Of New European Border Checks

Truckers are warning of the threat of significant costs to the road haulage industry as European nations reimpose long-abandoned border controls to check the greatest migratory flow across the continent since World War II. Frontier checks that had been swept