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Austria says it is planning to phase out special measures that have allowed thousands of migrants to travel freely from Hungary to western Europe. Chancellor Werner Faymann said Austria would remove the emergency measures for asylum seekers "step by step". The easing of rules has meant...

The UN’s humanitarian agencies are on the verge of bankruptcy and unable to meet the basic needs of millions of people because of the size of the refugee crisis in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, senior figures within the UN have told the Guardian. The deteriorating conditions in Lebanon...

Rivers of Blood!

Germany gets 27 Syrian asylum applications for every one to the UK For each asylum application by a Syrian in the UK over the past year, Germany received 27, according to figures released by the Home Office. Data on international migration in the year to June shows that the UK received 25,571...

Net migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March, the Office for National Statistics has said. The figure - the difference between the number entering the country and those leaving - is more than three times higher than the government's target. In 2014, 13%...