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Syrian migrants wait aboard the Turkish Coast Guard ship Umut after being rescued while attempting to reach the Greek Island Chios on the Agean Sea near Izmir in the night of December 9 to December 10, 2015.

Germany Should Limit Migrants to 200,000 Annually: Bavaria

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany only has capacity for a maximum 200,000 asylum seekers a year, about a fifth of the number it received in 2015, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer said Sunday. “In Germany, the arrival of 100,000 to a maximum 200,000 asylum

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Europe Feels Fallout From Merkel Migrant Magnanimity

Angela Merkel may have won praise from the world for Germany’s open-door policy on refugees, but a confused and divided Europe is feeling the fallout from the decision, analysts said. The German chancellor’s sudden move in early September to welcome

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Merkel Approval Rating Plummets 26 Points

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been looking unusually vulnerable as she prepares to meet the world’s top leaders this week, struggling to slow a huge influx of migrants amid mounting demands to do just that. Merkel’s optimistic

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Convoy Activists In Austria Face People Trafficking Charges

Self-styled activists who led a mass “refugee convoy” and drove from Austria into Hungary before returning with migrants could face criminal charges of people smuggling. At least three people who took part in the mass action, an increasingly common ploy in the migrant

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Violent Brawl At German Migrant Shelter Leaves Six Injured

BERLIN (AFP) – Some 50 people at a German migrant shelter engaged in a violent brawl overnight, hurling chairs and beating each other with table legs, leaving six people injured, police said Saturday. The punch-up, which took place in the northern town

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Hundreds Of Migrants Absconding From Asylum Centres EVERY WEEK

Migrants are walking out of German asylum registration centres and either disappearing into the countryside or travelling on to other countries in Europe, an official in the eastern state of Brandenburg has warned. On Wednesday alone some 600 people absconded and that number is