Europe Migrant Crisis

Migrants rush to Greek camp after rumours about borders being forced open

Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumours that the closed frontier would be forced open.

EU migrant crisis: Leaders want to bridge rifts among member states before Turkey summit

European leaders launch a charm offensive to win backing for a migrant deal with Turkey on Wednesday, seeking to heal rifts between member states on the eve of a key summit with Ankara.

Turkey convicts two Syrians over Aylan Kurdi's death; sentences them to four years' imprisonment

The court in Bodrum convicted the two of human trafficking but acquitted them of the charge of causing Aylan Kurdi's death through deliberate negligence.

Europe Migrant crisis: Greece seeks emergency funds from EU to shelter refugees

Greece has asked the EU for 480 million euros ($534 million) in emergency funds to help shelter 100,000 refugees, the government said Tuesday, warning that the migrant influx threatened to overwhelm its crisis-hit resources.

Europe migrant crisis: Macedonian police fire tear gas at refugees at Greece border

: Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece where more than 6,000 people are stranded, as Germany lashed out at EU states for abandoning Greece to refugee chaos.

Migrant crisis: Calais camp refugees asked to leave; authorities say evacuation to be 'progressive'

People fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa, the Mideast and Asia are facing an evening deadline to move out of a camp in the French port of Calais that has become a flashpoint in Europe's migrant crisis.

Nato calls Europe's migrant crisis a 'human tragedy', orders warships to Aegean Sea

The Nato warships, now under German command, will conduct reconnaissance and surveillance to help end Europe's gravest migrant crisis since World War II.

Angela Merkel is Time Person of the Year 2015, Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi takes second place

Time magazine Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "Person of the Year 2015," hailing her leadership during Europe's debt, refugee and migrant crises, as well as Russia's intervention in Ukraine.

Migrant crisis: EU, Balkan nations to set up one lakh reception centres to manage chaos

The European Union on Monday pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centres along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to end rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal with the crisis.

Europe migrant crisis: EU president calls for crackdown on 'murderers' among human traffickers

EU president Donald Tusk on Tuesday urged a crackdown on the "murderers" among human traffickers who have killed scores of people trying to reach Europe from conflicts abroad.