Hundreds of refugees left Budapest’s Keleti train station and reached the border of Austria on Saturday aboard buses provided by the Hungarian government. But authorities were bracing for a new wave...
256 viewsAs Syrian refugees travel by the masses into Europe, they continue to stream out of the technically closed land border with Turkey. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports. Originally published at - http:/...
287 viewsThousands of refugees have been crossing the border from Hungary into Austria, after the Hungarian government started relaxing restrictions. Aid workers and Austrian officials are expecting the influx...
274 viewsThe influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan to Europe is showing no signs of slowing. Aid workers and Hungarian officials say at least another 2,000 people crossed through a gap in the f...
225 viewsSyrian war orphans fleeing their country are usually deeply traumatized. But as a stream of refugees makes its way through Europe, some orphans say the death of one child could mean a better life for...
267 viewsIn a policy reversal, Britain has announced it will take in tens of thousands of refugees from Syria. It follows a public outpouring of distress across Europe after pictures were published last week s...
292 viewsU.N. officials expect 7,000 migrants to cross the border from Macedonia into Serbia, continuing the massive flow of mostly Middle Eastern refugees into Europe. VOA Europe Correspondent Luis Ramirez r...
181 viewsEuropean Commission Chief Jean-Claude Juncker has called for the resettlement of 160,000 refugees across the 28 members of the European Union – and a permanent asylum mechanism to cope with future c...
207 viewsThe men had already wrapped their passports, money and college records in saran wrap, tape and balloons. Phones and chargers were placed in waterproof satchels, and each had a new knife in his pocket ...
213 viewsBoth Austria and Hungary witnessed a spike in the number of migrants crossing their respective borders overnight. The two countries are at the forefront of Europe's refugee crisis. E...
265 viewsThe United States announced this week it would take in 10,000 displaced Syrians during the next 12 months. That's a jump from the less than 2,000 allowed in last fiscal year. ...
215 viewsAs Europe continues to bicker over sheltering tens of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict, public opinion in France has swung in favor of the Iraqis and Syrians who are beginning to arrive in the c...
237 viewsAs European countries continue debating how to deal with the influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and other countries, the situation on the Serbia-Hungary border has been reaching a cri...
216 viewsThe world’s focus is on the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe. But millions of people are also on the move across Africa, escaping poverty and persecution. As Henry Ridgwell reports for VOA, mig...
195 viewsThe journey for the tens of thousands fleeing conflict in the Middle East is already difficult, but as VOA’s Ayesha Tanzeem reports from Belgrade, Serbia, their difficulties are compounded by an ina...
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