Canada has met a self-imposed deadline to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees fleeing their country's civil war, officials said, fulfilling a campaign promise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Greece was taking "all the measures as if borders have closed for good by activating a Plan B to deal with the refugee emergency," Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said on Sunday.
The Bundestag, or lower house of the German parliament, passed on Thursday a package of new regulations to tighten asylum rules in an effort to deal with an unprecedented influx of refugees.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday warned against national closing-border solutions and vowed to fight for the joint European Union plan to limit flows of refugees to Europe.
The debate held here on Wednesday at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)'s winter session made it clear that the new battle underway in Europe turns around the question of the number and the origins of refugees in a context generally growing more hostile toward migrants.
One of Australia's most prominent businessmen has called on the Australian government to almost triple its Syrian refugee intake, from 12,000 up to 30,000.
Protesters marched to the Evros river fence at the border between Greece and Turkey on Sunday demanding that it will be demolished to open a safe, legal passage to Europe for the desperate refugees and migrants who risk their lives to enter the EU.
Eight people were killed and 42 others injured Friday when a bus carrying illegal refugees overturned in western Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.
About 70 percent of more than 1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon now live below the Lebanese extreme poverty line of 3.84 U.S. dollars per day, said a report released on Wednesday.
Almost a million migrants are estimated to have arrived on European shores by sea alone in 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration, while the European statistics agency Eurostat has counted 980,000 asylum requests across EU member states so far this year.
The year 2015 has seen the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World World II, as exodus of migrants from war-torn Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have been flocking to the continent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended on Monday her refugee policy, promising to reduce the refugee influx through effective measures and calling for a sustainable and lasting solution to the current refugee crisis.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Tuesday launched a campaign to raise 2 million U.S. dollars to provide the most vulnerable Palestinian refugees with the support they need to keep warm this winter, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
An international debate over accepting refugees is heating up in Japan, with anti- and pro-refugee protesters making their voices heard across the nation.
A deal reached Sunday between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flow of refugees, mostly Syrians, to Europe has wider implications, analysts said.
With about 50,000 to 60,000 new arrivals of refugees by the end of this year, the Dutch public services announced Monday that they are working together to make sure that all steps from registration to eventual repatriation or permit granting proceed safely and smoothly.
Party leaders of Germany's ruling coalition have agreed on Thursday on plans to establish special registration centers for refugees in Germany, with an aim to speed up asylum procedures for those who have little chance to get asylum.
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