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Germany can't cope with refugee family reunification demands: minister
Germany's interior minister called for family reunification rights of Syrian asylum seekers to be limited, saying the country cannot cope with a doubling of its already record refugee numbers.
12 November 2015
Republican rivals rip Trump's immigration plan
Donald Trump reiterated his pledge during Tuesday's Republican presidential debate to deport millions of undocumented workers, a plan trashed by rivals including Jeb Bush.
11 November 2015
Italy's painstaking bid to identify shipwrecked migrants
The shy children from a dog-eared photograph found in the pocket of a migrant drowned off Italy may never know what happened to the man who might have been their father.
10 November 2015
EU turns to African leaders to stem migrant crisis
EU leaders will push their wary African counterparts to help tackle the migration crisis at a summit in Malta this week, offering them billions of euros in aid in exchange for cooperation
09 November 2015
Trudeau says Canada ready to settle 25,000 Syrian refugees
Canada's new prime minister vowed to make good on campaign promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the beginning of next year and bring home fighter jets battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
06 November 2015
Germany to speed up repatriations of rejected asylum-seekers
Germany plans to speed up repatriations of rejected asylum-seekers from new central hubs, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition allies agreed, vowing to bring order to a record migrant influx.
06 November 2015
Croatia votes as migrants flow in, economy languishes
Croatians vote in a general election as the nation faces an ongoing influx of refugees -- a crisis that rival political camps have tried to exploit, while lacking concrete policy pledges to kickstart the sluggish economy.
05 November 2015
Migrant crisis 'may derail' EU budgets: Dijsselbloem
Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the fallout from the refugee crisis should be considered when assessing some members' budgets, adding it had already had a major impact on debt-ridden Greece.
03 November 2015
US Speaker Ryan won't work with Obama on immigration
Fresh off his election as speaker of the House of Representatives, US Congressman Paul Ryan refused to cooperate with President Barack Obama on immigration, ruling out any reform before 2017.
02 November 2015
Germany to send 'tens of thousands' of migrants back to Balkans
Germany will send thousands of rejected asylum applicants back to the Balkans in the coming months as Berlin toughens its stance on economic migrants in the face of a refugee crisis.
29 October 2015
Thousands demonstrate in Czech Republic against migrants
Thousands of people protested against migrants in towns around the Czech Republic, a week after the UN slammed the country's treatment of new arrivals as "degrading".
29 October 2015
EU will 'start falling apart' if no quick action on migrants: Slovenia
The European Union will "start falling apart" if it fails to take concrete action to tackle the migrant crisis within the next few weeks.
26 October 2015
Economic migrants use children as 'human shields': Czech leader
The Czech president accused economic migrants of using children as "human shields" in their bid to reach Europe, as the continent grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War II.
26 October 2015
EU, Balkan leaders struggle to defuse tensions over migrants
European Union and Balkan leaders struggled Sunday to reduce tensions over how to tackle the migrant crisis as Slovenia warned the bloc will "start falling apart" if it fails to take concrete action within weeks.
26 October 2015
Juncker backs Merkel on refugees ahead of EU mini-summit
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker backed Angela Merkel's welcoming stance towards migrants ahead of a mini-summit of leaders this weekend aimed at tackling record arrivals.
24 October 2015
Juncker urges EU member states to respect migrant aid pledges
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker chided EU member states for not respecting their pledges of humanitarian aid to tackle the migrant crisis, saying "urgency" was needed.
23 October 2015
Juncker calls EU-Balkans mini-summit on refugees for Sunday
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has called a mini-summit in Brussels to tackle the migrant crisis along the western Balkans route.
21 October 2015
One seriously hurt as thousands mass in Dresden for anti-migrant rally, counter-protest
Tens of thousands of people massed in the eastern German city of Dresden in counter rallies over the anti-migrant movement PEGIDA, with one demonstrator left seriously injured in a brief clash between the two sides.
20 October 2015
UN chief regrets 'root causes' of refugee crisis were unaddressed
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said more should have been done to tackle the "root causes" of the worst refugee and migrant crisis since World War II.
20 October 2015
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