TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) — The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local (CET): 
 
 Migrants arrive at the train station in Beli Manastir, near Hungarian border, northeast Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Croatia has suddenly become the latest hotspot in the 1,000-mile plus exodus... (Associated Press) 
 
 People push through a police line in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, with people trampling... (Associated Press) 
 
 A boy tries to cool down by pouring water over his head at a train station in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian... (Associated Press) 
 
 People reach out in order to receive aid packages in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, with... (Associated Press) 
 
 A woman spots her child in the arms of a Croatian police officer as she pushed through a police line in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines... (Associated Press) 
 
 People crowd a bus provided by the Croatian government, after pushing through police lines in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the... (Associated Press) 
 
 A Croatian police officer tries to stop a man from pushing through a police cordon in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern... (Associated Press) 
 
 A youth cries amid scuffles between migrants and Croatian police officers in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian... (Associated Press) 
 
 A group of migrants walk on the road near Bezdan, Serbia, towards Croatia Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new path toward Western Europe after... (Associated Press) 
 
 Migrants walking by a wire fence near the Horgos border crossing, near Horgos, Serbia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new path toward Western... (Associated Press) 
 
 A group of migrants walking on the road near Bezdan, Serbia, towards Croatia Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new path toward Western Europe... (Associated Press) 
 
 A migrant looks through a bus window, near Batina, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new path toward Western Europe after Hungary used... (Associated Press) 
 
 A girl cries at the "Horgos 2" border crossing into Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new path toward Western... (Associated Press) 
 
 Refugees rest on the roadside after police stopped them near the border between Austria and Germany, in Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson) (Associated Press) 
 
 A Hungarian police officer guards the "Horgos 2" border crossing into the Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new... (Associated Press) 
 
 A man holds his son in his arms as they wait for a train in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik,... (Associated Press) 
 
 People reach out in order to receive aid packages in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, with... (Associated Press) 
 
 A man holds a baby as he stands in front of a police cordon in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A man gets help as he was mildly injured while pushing through a police line in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian... (Associated Press) 
 
 A group of migrants wave as they are transported in a Croatian police vehicle, near Batina, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Thousands of migrants poured into Croatia on Thursday, setting up a new path... (Associated Press) 
 
 Families wait for a train at a train station in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, with people... (Associated Press) 
 
 A baby cries as a family tries to push through a police line in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A man holds a child as he is let through a police line in Tovarnik, Croatia, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, ... (Associated Press) 
 
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 10:50 p.m. 
 
 About 100 intellectuals and politicians from Central Europe have launched an impassioned appeal for their countries to show solidarity with refugees. 
 
 The appeal, made available to The Associated Press on Thursday, was signed by people from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Baltic states and Croatia. Among them are Poland's former presidents, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Bronislaw Komorowski, and former Czech, Lithuanian and Hungarian prime ministers: Petr Pithart, Andrius Kubilus, Gordon Bajnai. 
 
 "In the name of our humanity, our principles and values, we call upon the authorities and people of our region to demonstrate practical solidarity towards refugees so that they may find safe haven in our midst and enjoy freedom to choose their own future," it said. 
 
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 10:25 p.m. 
 
 Slovenian police say a group of about 150 refugees who have arrived from Croatia on an international train bound for Zurich will be returned to Croatia. 
 
 The refugees arrived at the Dobova train station, which serves as the main rail border crossing between Slovenia and Croatia, Thursday evening. They were transferred to three cars which will take them back to Croatia, according to Slovenia's state news agency. 
 
 Meanwhile, Croatia's Interior Minister says his country could close down its borders if faced with thousands more migrants and refugees coming in from Serbia as has been the case in the past two days. 
 
 Ranko Ostojic on Thursday urged Serbia's authorities to halt the migrants. 
 
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 9:45 p.m. 
 
 Slovenian authorities say more than 200 migrants have arrived in Slovenia on an international train from Croatia. 
 
 The official STA news agency says the refugees have been provisionally accommodated on a train station near the border. 
 
 Slovenia's government has been bracing for the influx of refugees after more than 9,000 migrants arrived in neighboring Croatia in the past two days. Police have said they will do their best to direct the migrants toward refugee centers. 
 
 Some of the migrants from Croatia also have set out on foot toward Slovenia's border, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) away. 
 
 Most migrants want to go further toward Austria and Hungary, but Slovenian officials have said providing transit corridors would be against EU rules 
 
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 9:30 p.m. 
 
 Croatia's prime minister says his country cannot hold down migrants who wish to move on toward Western Europe. 
 
 Zoran Milanovic said Thursday that "our resources are limited." He adds that "we will not and cannot keep them in Croatia and no one will make us do that." 
 
 Croatian police says 9,200 migrants have entered the country by late Thursday. Already groups of migrants were trying to cross into neighboring Slovenia and Hungary. 
 
 Milanovic says authorities will try to register as many as they can in accordance with EU rules but that "if there are more, we will not be able to register them." 
 
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 8:50 p.m. 
 
 Hungary's foreign minister says the "state of crisis" declared earlier in some areas due to the large flow of migrants has been extended to a pair of southern counties as migrants have begun entering from Croatia. 
 
 Peter Szijjarto said Thursday that emergency measure giving authorities extra powers like greater leeway in the use of public buildings and the right to block roads would be extended to Baranya and Somogy counties, which border Croatia. 
 
 Szijjarto said Croatian officials had "lost control" over the migrant flow there after Hungary's clampdown on its border with Serbia forced migrants to find new routes to Germany and Western Europe. 
 
 Szijjarto said it was "unacceptable" that Croatia was pushing migrants toward Hungary and Slovenia instead of registering and looking after them according to European Union rules. 
 
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 8:40 p.m. 
 
 Close to 1,000 migrants arrived on a train in a Croatian town near the border with Hungary and police are encouraging them to spend the night at an abandoned military base. 
 
 About 20 police officers met the train in the town of Beli Manastir, only a few kilometers from the Hungarian border, and directed them toward the disused base. The migrants walked toward the former military installation as a police car led the way. 
 
 Police weren't forcing the migrants to stay at the base, but many were taking up the offer. 
 
 Migrants have been taking a detour, trying to cross into Hungary from Croatia after Hungary built a fence along its border with Serbia. 
 
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 7 p.m. 
 
 Migrants are taking a detour — trying to cross into Hungary from Croatia after Hungary built a fence along its Serbian border and sent thousands of police there. 
 
 So far the move has not proved too successful. Hungarian state media said Thursday that police had detained dozens of migrants near the village of Illocska, opposite the Croatian town of Beli Manastir. 
 
 Croatian officials say over 8,900 migrants have reached Croatia in the last two days after Hungary shut down its border. 
 
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 6:30 p.m. 
 
 Croatian media say President Kolinda Grabar Kitarevic has asked the country's military to be on higher alert and ready to act if needed to protect the border from illegal migrants. 
 
 The official Hina news agency says Grabar Kitarovic has met with the Chief of Staff of the Croatian army, Drago Lovric, and asked that the military monitor the situation. 
 
 More than 8,900 asylum seekers have crossed into Croatia in just two days, after Hungary sealed off its territory. Many have entered Croatia through cornfields to avoid having to register with authorities. Some official crossings were overwhelmed and chaotic Thursday. 
 
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 6:15 p.m. 
 
 Swedish officials say the flow of asylum seekers to the country has reached unprecedented levels, with more than 1,000 new arrivals daily. 
 
 The Swedish Migration Agency says in the seven days ending Tuesday, 5,214 people applied for asylum, beating a record set in June 1992 during the Balkan wars. 
 
 Most are from Syria, but the numbers from Afghanistan and Iraq are also growing. There has also been a surge in unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, with 923 such cases registered in the seven-day period. 
 
 Sweden received more than 80,000 asylum seekers last year, the highest per capita in the European Union. The recent surge suggests the numbers could be higher this year. 
 
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 6:10 p.m. 
 
 Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says European governments must listen to their people on the migrant crisis, who are "not as hard-hearted and harsh as the governments." 
 
 In a prerecorded talk show to be aired Friday by Swedish broadcaster SVT, Annan said "we are going to see more of this: where leaders fail to lead and people will lead and make them follow." 
 
 The U.N. chief from 1997 to 2006 told the "Skavlan" talk show that "all of Europe must come together and deal with this crisis." 
 
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 6 p.m. 
 
 Jordan's Queen Rania has called for a decisive response from the global community to the migration crisis, and warned that a failure to act could spur extremism. 
 
 Rania, whose country hosts some 1.4 million Syrians, on Thursday praised Germany for helping Syrian refugees. 
 
 At a ceremony in Berlin where German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented her with a prize for promoting peace and tolerance, Rania warned that "denying refugees their basic rights risks creating a defeated and disillusioned generation who, at their most desperate, could be susceptible to extremist ideology." 
 
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 5:50 p.m. 
 
 Germany's foreign minister says he will use an upcoming trip to Turkey to press for better cooperation to tackle the migrant crisis and bring an end to the conflict in Syria. 
 
 Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is traveling to Ankara on Friday for talks with Turkish government officials. 
 
 In a statement Thursday, Steinmeier said he will see where Germany can provide Turkey with further assistance, since Turkey is already hosting almost 2 million refugees from Syria. 
 
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 5:35 p.m. 
 
 Serbia's government says that Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will visit the country on Friday — an apparent bid to ease tensions that erupted after Hungarian police used tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons against migrants seeking entry from Serbia. 
 
 Serbia's foreign ministry said Thursday that Szijjarto will meet with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic. The officials will hold a joint news conference. 
 
 Hungary has sealed its border with Serbia in a bid to stop the influx of migrants. 
 
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 5:15 p.m. 
 
 Slovenia's Red Cross expects 5,000 refugees to enter the country in the coming days and has appealed for more aid as thousands have been pouring into neighboring Croatia. 
 
 More than 7,300 people have entered Croatia in the last two days. Most have sought to move on toward Western Europe, with Slovenia being the next stop on their route. 
 
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 4:50 p.m. 
 
 Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka now says his country is willing to accept thousands of refugees. 
 
 The Czech Republic is one of several European Union nations that reject mandatory quotas for distributing refugees — but the government says it's ready to help share the burden a voluntary basis. 
 
 The country has so far agreed to accept 1,500 people but Sobotka said Thursday "we are ready to help several thousands." His human rights minister has suggested the country could take up to 15,000 refugees. 
 
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 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Croatian police say 7,300 migrants have entered the country in the last two days after Hungary sealed its border. 
 
 After thousands waited for hours in the hot sun, dozens were trampled in a scrum to get on some trains and buses Thursday at the Croatian town of Torvarnik. Authorities appeared overwhelmed by the flow, and some guards stood behind trees to avoid the crush. 
 
 The migrants are taken to refugee centers where they are registered and can apply for asylum. Most don't want to stay in Croatia but are eager to move on toward Western Europe. 
 
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 4:20 p.m. 
 
 The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the world's largest body of Muslim countries, "expressed shock and dismay at the harsh and unacceptable treatment by the Hungarian police" in dispersing protesting migrants who sought to enter the country from Serbia. 
 
 Iyad Madani, who heads the 57-nation OIC from its headquarters in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, called on Hungary's government "to respect international humanitarian law and human rights of the refugees." 
 
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 3:55 p.m. 
 
 Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik, with people trampling and falling on each other amid the chaos. 
 
 An Associated Press photographer saw one man collapsing on the ground and dozens injured in the melee. 
 
 More than 2,000 men, women and children were stuck at the local train station for hours in blazing heat and sun, waiting to board trains and buses to refugee centers. When buses arrived, groups charged toward them, overwhelming the Croatian police. 
 
 After the situation calmed, groups of migrants moved off on foot, with police unable to stop them. 
 
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 3:50 p.m. 
 
 Norway's foreign minister says the country will donate a total of 60 million kroner ($7.3 million) to Serbia and Macedonia to cope with the large influx of people pouring into the region. 
 
 Minister Borge Brende says "I commend Serbia for the great efforts and generosity" that the government, organizations and the civil society have shown. 
 
 Brende said 30 million kroner will be given to Serbia to upgrade "the reception apparatus" ahead of winter, and 30 million will be used as emergency aid to both Serbia and Macedonia. 
 
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 3:45 p.m. 
 
 The U.N.'s top human rights official says Hungary is violating international law with its response to the migration crisis. 
 
 Zeid Raad al-Hussein said that he was appalled by the actions of the Hungarian authorities, saying that "images of women and young children being assaulted with tear gas and water cannons at Hungary's border with Serbia were truly shocking." 
 
 Zeid called Hungary's actions "callous, and in some cases illegal," citing the country's denial of entry and return of migrants and refugees. 
 
 He also cited the reported assaults of journalists and the seizing of journalists' video footage. Zeid said that "xenophobic and anti-Muslim views appear to lie at the heart of current Hungarian Government policy." 
 
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 3:35 p.m. 
 
 Some 200 asylum seekers, most of them Syrians, are holding a spontaneous demonstration in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne, demanding that authorities allow them to cross the border into Europe. 
 
 Clapping and chanting "Merkel!" the group said they will refuse to eat and will keep staging a sit-in protest until Turkey lets them pass. Amir Raei, a 25-year-old Syrian from Idlib, said they won't give up and they will try to reach the Turkish-Greek border shortly. 
 
 Hundreds of others are also waiting in Edirne's bus terminal and in the city, which borders European Union members Greece and Bulgaria. 
 
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 3:35 p.m. 
 
 A Hungarian official says the country's plan to impose strict controls at its borders to stop the flow of migrants has been successful because human traffickers are using other routes to reach Western Europe. 
 
 Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, said the "assertive, uncompromising defense of the border" has worked to hold back the human tide. 
 
 Hungary began applying tougher migration and asylum rules Tuesday. Thousands of police and soldiers are now guarding the 4-meter (13-foot) high fence on the southern border with Serbia. 
 
 Instead, many migrants are now going to neighboring Croatia, to then try to reach Germany and other, richer EU countries. 
 
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 3:30 p.m. 
 
 Hundreds of migrants are entering Croatia from Serbia over a Danube River bridge in the northern town of Batina after being bused in by Serb authorities. 
 
 Croatian police seemed unprepared for the sudden influx of exhausted families with little children as they waited to be registered. There were some chaotic scenes at the border with women fainting and children crying as buses and vans took them to Croatian refugee centers. 
 
 Some families were separated as dozens of policemen tried to establish order. 
 
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 3:25 p.m. 
 
 European Union leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels next Wednesday to try to overcome differences about how to manage Europe's biggest refugee emergency in decades. 
 
 European Council President Donald Tusk made the announcement on Twitter. 
 
 EU interior ministers will meet in Brussels on the eve of the summit to try to finalize a plan to share 120,000 refugees amid strong opposition from some Eastern European states. 
 
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 2:35 p.m. 
 
 More than 800 Syrians and others have been cleared out of makeshift camps in Paris and bused to special centers as France steps up its efforts to deal with Europe's migrant surge. 
 
 Charity groups woke the migrants before dawn at two camps, one along the Seine River near the Gare d'Austerlitz train station in southeast Paris, the other in northern Paris near the Montmartre neighborhood. 
 
 The migrants, mostly young men but also a few families with children, boarded buses to special migrant housing centers in Paris and the surrounding region. Many had been living in the streets of the French capital for months. 
 
 France has been criticized for its relatively slow response to the migrant crisis. 
 
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 2:10 p.m. 
 
 Romania has protested a decision by Hungary to build a 70-kilometer (43 1/2-mile) fence along their shared border to deter migrants. 
 
 A government statement said the fence plan "did not conform to European Union norms" after Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto gave details of its length. Hungary has already built a razor-wire fence with Serbia and has suggested it may do the same with neighboring Croatia. 
 
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 2 p.m. 
 
 Austria and Slovenia have called for an urgent all-EU response to the migrant crisis as the two countries braced for a wave of thousands of refugees from Croatia. 
 
 Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann says after talks with Slovenia's Prime Minister Miro Cerar that "we are being put to test." The comments were carried by Slovenia's official STA news agency. 
 
 Faymann says "this time we must prove we don't want a Europe in which everyone will try to shift their problems to others' shoulders." 
 
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 1:45 p.m. 
 
 A German hospital has seen a spate of Syrian refugees poisoned after eating mushrooms that apparently resemble edible fungi in their homeland. 
 
 The Hannover Medical School said it has seen around 35 cases in recent days of people — mostly refugees from Syria — who had eaten the death cap mushroom. Those with the most severe symptoms were taken to a specialized clinic. 
 
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 1:20 p.m. 
 
 Germany's vice chancellor is making a new appeal to other European countries to help shoulder the burden of the influx of migrants. 
 
 Germany has made little progress so far in persuading many countries in the European Union to agree to a mandatory redistribution of refugees. Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said in a video message that Europe needs to move: "Germany is helping. The question is, who is helping Germany?" 
 
 Gabriel said the impression has arisen that "Europe is something people join in with when there's money and where they hide in the bushes when they have to take responsibility." He added that "money cannot keep on flowing in Europe as it has so far if Germany, Austria and Sweden organize and finance taking in refugees alone." 
 
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 12:40 p.m. 
 
 More than 2,000 migrants have gathered at the train station in the eastern Croatian town of Tovarnik waiting to move after crossing in from Serbia hours ago. 
 
 Standing in the blazing sun, they are waiting to board trains to the refugee centers in the capital Zagreb and elsewhere in Croatia. 
 
 More than 6,000 people have entered Croatia in just one day, straining its systems. Migrants have turned to Croatia after Hungary used water cannons, pepper spray and tear gas to turn them away. 
 
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 12:30 p.m. 
 
 Hungarian officials say the alleged leader of a riot by migrants at a closed border crossing with Serbia has been detained and is suspected of "terrorism." 
 
 Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said the unidentified Syrian man was "one of the organizers who specifically directed the attacks" Wednesday afternoon when hundreds of migrants on the Serbian side tried to break through the border and threw rocks at Hungarian police. 
 
 The migrants were repelled with tear gas, water cannons and batons by police, and 22 of them were detained. 
 
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 12:15 p.m. 
 
 The chief editor of one of Sweden's largest newspapers says one of its photographers was knocked to the ground by police using clubs and tear gas in Hungary while covering the huge number of people moving across Europe. 
 
 Thomas Mattsson, of tabloid Expressen, told Hungary's ambassador to Sweden, Lilla Makkay, that what happened to photographer Meli Petersson Ellafi a day earlier was "unacceptable." 
 
 Hungary used tear gas, pepper spray, batons and water cannons to keep migrants out of its territory. 
 
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 11:45 a.m. 
 
 Croatia's government has formed a crisis body to deal with the thousands of migrants pouring into the country from Serbia after Hungary sealed its border. 
 
 More than 6,000 people have entered the country in just one day, straining the authorities who scrambled to control the situation. 
 
 Migrants can be seen crossing into the country through cornfields and along roads, holding children and carrying their belongings. Overwhelmed local authorities in the town of Tovarnik, the main entry point, have appealed for government help. 
 
 President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has called for stricter border control. 
 
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 11:40 a.m. 
 
 Upward of 500 migrants are waiting to cross into Germany from Austria, with police giving precedence to families with children and elderly people. 
 
 Hundreds of people were crammed on both sides of the bridge crossing the Saalach river that marks the border between the two countries. Many had camped out on the Austrian side of the border overnight. 
 
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 11:35 a.m. 
 
 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging auto industry managers to give refugees opportunities as her country faces the task of integrating a wave of newcomers. 
 
 Merkel said at the Frankfurt auto show that Germany should approach the task with optimism. 
 
 German authorities expect at least 800,000 migrants, possibly up to 1 million, to arrive this year, though it's unclear how many will be allowed to stay. 
 
 Merkel reiterated: "We want to help those who need protection, but we must also say to those who are coming to us only for economic reasons that they must leave." 
 
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 11:30 a.m. 
 
 Hungary's foreign minister says the European Union should take over the financing of refugee camps for Syrians in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq and, if necessary, support the construction of more camps there. 
 
 Peter Szijjarto said that "the interest of people fleeing war zones ... is to wait out the end of the war as close as possible to their homes." He said Hungary was willing to make a "massive contribution" to such efforts. 
 
 Szijjarto also reiterated Hungary's pledge to provide "police officers, soldiers and money" to help set up a joint EU force to block migrants from entering fellow EU member Greece, from where they often continue north toward richer EU countries like Germany. 
 
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 11:05 a.m. 
 
 European Union lawmakers have backed an EU plan to distribute 120,000 refugees among member countries in a fast-track measure aimed at relieving migration pressure on Greece, Italy and Hungary. 
 
 The move in the European Parliament means that EU interior ministers meeting in Brussels next Tuesday will be able to approve the plan if they can overcome opposition from a group of Eastern European nations. ||||| Image copyright Reuters Image caption Migrants are crossing into Croatia where they are being registered 
 
 Croatia says it will allow migrants to travel on to northern Europe, opening up a new route a day after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia. 
 
 More than 150 migrants have crossed into Croatia from Serbia, with some of those stranded on Serbia's border with Hungary making a similar trip. 
 
 At the Serbia-Hungary border, Hungarian riot police have fired tear gas at migrants who were trying to break through a border post. 
 
 Many migrants want to reach Germany. 
 
 New border restrictions and a row over allocating migrants have exposed bitter divisions in Europe over the crisis. 
 
 The clashes at the Serbia-Hungary border on Wednesday afternoon occurred after police sealed a key crossing point near the town of Roszke. It has been used by tens of thousands of migrants to enter the European Union's Schengen zone, which allows people to travel between countries without restrictions. 
 
 The BBC's James Reynolds, at the scene, reports that migrants stranded on the Serbian side chanted "Open open", and threw plastic water bottles at the police, who forced the crowd back by firing tear gas. 
 
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 The BBC's Lyse Doucet says buses, vans and cars have been taking migrants away from the Serbia-Hungary border area towards the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and the border with Croatia. 
 
 Hungary declared a state of emergency in the border area on Tuesday, with hundreds of army and police deployed to enforce new laws making it an offence to breach a razor-wire border fence. 
 
 The first trials of refugees detained for illegal border crossing have been held in the Hungarian city of Szeged. 
 
 Ahmed Suadi Talib, an Iraqi who was studying in Syria, was the first to be convicted under the new law, and was excluded from Hungary for one year. 
 
 Speaking through a translator, he told the court he had fled Syria to escape Islamic State. He entered Hungary via a hole in the border fence, he said, and did not know crossing into Hungary was illegal. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's James Reynolds is at the legal crossing point from Serbia into Hungary but says the door is currently locked 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Christian Fraser on the Hungarian side of the border fence notices some weak points. 
 
 The EU's border agency says more than 500,000 migrants have arrived at the EU's borders so far this year, compared with 280,000 in 2014. 
 
 Many are fleeing conflict and poverty in countries including Syria, where a civil war has been raging since 2011. 
 
 The migrants have been crossing from Turkey, with about 1,000 in the city of Edirne on Wednesday, waiting to organise a crossing into Greece. Their journey would then take them to Macedonia and Serbia. 
 
 Until Monday, most poured into Hungary and then crossed into Austria to reach Germany. Both Germany and Austria have introduced tighter border controls to control the flow. 
 
 Trains from the Austrian city of Salzburg to Germany have been halted, leading to a build-up of migrants at the city's station. Several hundred people have left the crowded station and are now walking towards Germany. 
 
 The UK is set to welcome the first Syrian refugees to be taken in under the government's expanded resettlement scheme "in the coming days, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. 
 
 The UK has pledged to take up to 20,000 refugees over the next five years. 
 
 At the scene: James Reynolds, BBC News, Serbia-Hungary border 
 
 Several hundred refugees and migrants are milling about here on the last few metres of Serbian territory. In front of them, the border gate into Hungary is locked. A line of Hungarian police wearing riot gear stands on the other side of a roll of razor wire. 
 
 "Open the gate, open the gate," chants a group of several dozen migrants and refugees. 
 
 One man half-scales the gate and begs the Hungarian police to let everyone in. But he gets no response. 
 
 Further back in the makeshift encampment, the atmosphere is much calmer. Volunteers distribute food and drink from vans. Next to a TV satellite truck, several people charge their smartphones. Refugee families rest in their tents. 
 
 "I will stay here forever," says Saleh, a law student from Damascus. "I can't go back." 
 
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 At the scene: Guy Delauney, BBC News, Serbia-Croatia border 
 
 Dozens of refugees walked through fields into Croatia from the official Serbian border crossing at Sid. 
 
 Several told me they were hoping to reach Slovenia and the Schengen area. Others shouted "Thank you, Serbia" as they left. 
 
 Croatian police vans were waiting for the group as they crossed the border. All of them boarded without a struggle. 
 
 Croatia says it is ready to receive migrants or "direct" them to where they want to go. 
 
 Serbian media say at least 10 buses were heading to the town of Sid, near the Croatian border, from Presevo near Serbia's southern border with Macedonia. 
 
 One of those who arrived on Wednesday, Amadou from Mauritania, told AFP news agency: "We heard that Hungary was closed so the police told us we should come this way." 
 
 Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic told parliament that authorities were "ready to receive or direct those people where they want to go. 
 
 "They will be able to pass through Croatia and we will help, we're getting ready for that possibility," he said. 
 
 Migrants have been crossing into Croatia on foot - avoiding the official border crossing point. Police are registering them before taking them to reception centres. 
 
 Croatian media have warned of the dangers posed by landmines dating back to Croatia's war of independence in the early 1990s, even though experts say the areas are clearly marked. 
 
 The Serbian minister in charge of the government's committee on migrants, Aleksandar Vulin, argued that the border closure by Hungary was unsustainable for his country. 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption The Hungarian border fence has left hundreds stranded in Serbia 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption Migrants in Serbia are angry at the Hungarian border closure 
 
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 Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways: ||||| Refugees blazed a new pathway through Europe on Wednesday, with hundreds hiking through cornfields to reach welcoming Croatia even as others faced tear gas and water cannons from Hungarian police determined to turn them away. 
 
 The contrasting scenes along the Serbian border highlighted both the make-or-break resolve of the asylum seekers and the growing friction facing Europe, which has failed to create a coordinated policy for the unprecedented influx of economic migrants and war refugees from the Middle East, Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. 
 
 “We hit a stone and we flow around it,” said Arazak Dubal, 28, a computer programmer from Damascus, who had been on the road for 18 days. 
 
 He and his three companions reached Belgrade only to discover on Facebook and WhatsApp that the Hungarian border was closed to refugees. 
 
 “So I went to Google Maps, and here we are,” said Dubal, huffing in the hot afternoon as he trudged across the farm fields. 
 
 
 
 
 
 A two-hour drive to the northeast — along Serbia’s frontier with Hungary — the route was slammed shut. 
 
 Just steps from Hungary, thousands of people spent the night in the wet grass on the Serbian side of the border. Hours later, hundreds tried to punch through the cordon of razor wire and riot police massed near the Serbian border town of Horgos. 
 
 But they ran headlong into security forces­ who unleashed tear gas and pepper spray to drive them back. Some refugees were swatted by batons and crumpled to the ground in pain. 
 
 [New threat on the refu­gee trail: land mines] 
 
 “Open the door!” the refugees yelled as they hurled water bottles and debris at riot police. 
 
 Nearby, children screamed for their missing parents. Water cannons sprayed crowds on the Serbian side, forcing refugees to retreat to a squalid squatters’ camp that took root just after Hungary closed the border Tuesday. 
 
 There were no major injuries, but some refugees were treated by Serbian authorities for respiratory problems from the tear gas and at least one migrant had a leg injury, the Associated Press reported. 
 
 It was the first major clash between security forces­ and migrants since police used stun grenades to stop refugees from crossing into Macedonia from Greece almost a month ago. 
 
 “We fled wars and violence and did not expect such brutality and inhumane treatment in Europe,” said Amir Hassan, who was drenched from a water cannon and tried to wash tear gas from his eyes, according to AP. 
 
 “Shame on you Hungarians!” he shouted, pointing toward the Hungarian police. 
 
 At the United Nations, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Hungary’s border crackdowns “unacceptable.” 
 
 “All the countries have their domestic problems,” he said, “but since they are the people fleeing the wars and persecutions, then we must show our compassionate leadership.” 
 
 Neighboring countries continued to heap scorn on Hungary’s decision to blocks its southern border. 
 
 “Barbed wire in Europe in the 21st century is not an answer, it’s a threat,” complained Croatia’s prime minister, Zoran Milanovic, in a direct jab at the blockades by neighboring Hungary. 
 
 Milanovic promised that refugees would be allowed to pass through his country. 
 
 He told lawmakers in Zagreb that Croatia would “accept and direct” the migrants to transit the country — comments that rocketed through the social media networks used by the refugees and increased the march toward Croatia. 
 
 [ The limbo of the no man’s land ] 
 
 The river of migrants was swelling by the hour. 
 
 By late afternoon, more than 600 migrants walked through fields and along small roads to cross from Serbia into Croatia, a European Union member, where officials set up posts to register names and details. 
 
 Many traveled by bus from Macedonia and Hungary; others pulled up in taxis before crossing the border on foot and receiving a polite reception from authorities. 
 
 “We want to keep them moving as quickly as possible,” said Zdravko Helic, a civil protection officer in Tovarnik. 
 
 He was proud to add, “We haven’t had a single incident.” 
 
 Saeed, 19, a student from Damascus, called Hungary’s treatment of the refugees “old-fashioned racism.” 
 
 “We’re the first today,” said Dubal, the Syrian refugee. “There’ll be thousands tomorrow.” 
 
 Afterward they were taken by bus to a refugee processing camp outside the capital, Zagreb, where they would be officially registered. 
 
 What happens after Zagreb was uncertain. 
 
 Croatian officials said they would probably allow the migrants to continue their journeys by bus and train to Slovenia, Austria, Germany and beyond. But it was only Croatia’s first day at the leading edge of the mass migration, and authorities were scrambling to coordinate their response with E.U. partners. 
 
 “We will walk all the way to Germany if we have to,” said Mohammad, 28, who worked in a mobile phone store in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. 
 
 “Shop is gone, house is gone, some of family is gone,” he said. “So I will walk.” 
 
 Like many in the migrant stream, he declined to give his last name out of fear of reprisals against relatives back home. 
 
 The refugees had nothing good to say about Hungary. “Not nice at all,” said Abdullah, 24, from Aleppo, who smiled and waved at the Croatian police before they hustled him into a van. 
 
 “See? Very good service,” he joked. 
 
 Souad Mekhennet in Vienna, Gergo Saling and Jodi Hilton in Horgos, Serbia, and Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report. 
 
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 Europe is experiencing one of the most significant influxes of migrants and refugees in its history. Pushed by civil war and terror and pulled by the promise of a better life, huge numbers of people have fled the Middle East and Africa, risking their lives along the way. 
 
 More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, compared with just 280,000 the year before. The scale of the crisis continues, with more than 135,000 people arriving in the first two months of 2016. 
 
 Among the forces driving people to make the dangerous journey are the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The vast majority - more than 80% - of those who reached Europe by boat in 2015 came from those three countries. 
 
 Poverty, human rights abuses and deteriorating security are also prompting people to set out from countries such as Eritrea, Pakistan, Morocco, Iran and Somalia in the hope of a new life in somewhere like Germany, Sweden or the UK. 
 
 But as European countries struggle with the mass movement of people, some have tightened border controls. This has left tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Greece, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. 
 
 As leaders grasp for a solution, they have increasingly looked to Turkey, hoping to slow the number of people setting off for European shores. 
 
 What routes are people using? 
 
 The most direct routes are fraught with danger. In 2015 more than 3,770 people drowned or went missing crossing the Mediterranean to Greece or Italy in flimsy dinghies or unsafe fishing boats. 
 
 Most of those heading for Greece take the relatively short voyage from Turkey to the islands of Kos, Chios, Lesbos and Samos. There is very little infrastructure on these small Greek islands to cope with the thousands of people arriving, leaving overburdened authorities struggling to provide vital assistance. 
 
 Others migrants continue to travel by boat from Libya to Italy, a longer and more hazardous journey. 
 
 Some of the worse tragedies in 2015 included: 
 
 Two boats carrying about 500 migrants sank after leaving Zuwara in Libya on 27 August 
 
 The bodies of 71 people, believed to be Syrian migrants, were discovered in an abandoned lorry in Austria on 27 August 
 
 A shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island killed about 800 people on 19 April 
 
 At least 300 migrants are feared to have drowned after attempting to cross the Mediterranean in rough seas in early February 
 
 Survivors often report violence and abuse by people traffickers, who charge thousands of dollars per person for their services. The chaos in Libya in particular has given traffickers freedom to exploit migrants and refugees desperate to reach Europe. 
 
 Where are they going next? 
 
 Many attempting to reach Germany and other northern EU countries go via the perilous Western Balkans route, running the gauntlet of brutal people traffickers and robbers. 
 
 Faced with a huge influx of people, Hungary was the first to try to block their route with a razor-wire fence. The 175km (110-mile) barrier was widely condemned when it went up along the Serbia border, but other countries such as Slovenia and Bulgaria have erected similar obstacles. 
 
 Austria has placed a cap on the number of people allowed into its borders. And several Balkan countries, including Macedonia, have also decided only to allow Syrian and Iraqi migrants across their frontiers. 
 
 As a result, thousands of migrants have been stranded in makeshift camps in cash-strapped Greece, which has asked the European Commission for nearly €500m in humanitarian aid. 
 
 Under an EU rule known as the Dublin regulation, refugees are required to claim asylum in the member state in which they first arrive. 
 
 But some EU countries, such as Greece, Italy, and Croatia, have been allowing people to pass through - often via the passport-free Schengen zone - to countries further north. And those countries are often failing to send migrants back. 
 
 Germany received more than 1.1 million asylum seekers 2015 - by far the highest number in the EU. 
 
 Hundreds of thousands of people are somewhere along the route, in Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Serbia, and elsewhere. 
 
 Meanwhile between 2,000 and 5,000 migrants are camped at the French port of Calais in the hope of crossing over to the UK. 
 
 Are EU countries doing their fair share? 
 
 Germany has been critical of other EU countries - including France and the UK -over their relatively meagre commitments to take people in. 
 
 In September, EU interior ministers approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent over the next two years, with binding quotas. Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary opposed the scheme. 
 
 Despite some efforts to ease the burden on Italy and Greece, only small groups of migrants have been relocated so far and several states in Central and Eastern Europe have refused to accept them. 
 
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 For years the EU has been struggling to harmonise asylum policy. That is difficult with 28 member states, each with their own police force and judiciary. 
 
 Championing the rights of poor migrants is difficult as the economic climate is still gloomy, many Europeans are unemployed and wary of foreign workers, and EU countries are divided over how to share the refugee burden. 
 
 More detailed joint rules have been brought in with the Common European Asylum System - but rules are one thing, putting them into practice EU-wide is another challenge. 
 
 EU leaders now hope Turkey can help to reduce the number of migrants arriving in EU nations. In February the bloc approved €3bn ($3.3bn; £2.2bn) in funding for the country to help it cope with record numbers of Syrian migrants it is already hosting. 
 
 European Council President Donald Tusk says it is up to Turkey to decide how to reduce the flow to Europe, but that it could be time to turn back migrant boats trying to reach Greece. 
 
 A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. ||||| Image copyright Reuters Image caption Migrants are crossing into Croatia where they are being registered 
 
 The first group of migrants has reached Croatia - opening up a new route to northern EU countries, a day after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia. 
 
 About 150 migrants crossed into Croatia, an EU member, from Serbia. 
 
 Croatia says it is ready to receive them or "direct" them to where they want to go. Many migrants - mainly Syrian - are hoping to reach Germany. 
 
 New border restrictions and a row over allocating migrants have shown bitter divisions in Europe over the crisis. 
 
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 Hundreds of migrants remain stranded outside or in makeshift tents near the Serbian border with Hungary. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's James Reynolds is at the legal crossing point from Serbia into Hungary but says the door is currently locked 
 
 On Tuesday, Hungary declared a state of emergency in the border area, with hundreds of army and police deployed to enforce new laws making it an offence to breach a razor-wire border fence. 
 
 Police sealed a railway crossing point near Roszke which had been used by tens of thousands of migrants to enter the European border-free Schengen zone. 
 
 The move has all but stopped the inflow. On Wednesday, Hungarian police said they had detained 367 migrants entering illegally - and the first criminal proceedings have been launched. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Christian Fraser on the Hungarian side of the border fence notices some weak points. 
 
 The EU's border agency says more than 500,000 migrants have arrived at the EU's borders so far this year, compared with 280,000 in 2014. 
 
 Many are fleeing conflict and poverty in countries including Syria, where a civil war has been raging since 2011. 
 
 The migrants have been crossing from Turkey, with about about 1,000 in the city of Edirne on Wednesday, waiting to organise a crossing into Greece. Their journey would then take them to Macedonia and Serbia. 
 
 Until Monday, most poured into Schengen member Hungary and crossed into Austria to reach Germany. Both Germany and Austria have introduced tighter border controls to control the flow. 
 
 'We will help' 
 
 A group of about 40 migrants arrived in the border town of Sid in Serbia on Wednesday. They had travelled by bus from the Serbian town of Presevo near the Macedonian border in the south. 
 
 "We heard that Hungary was closed so the police told us we should come this way," Amadou, 35, from Mauritania told AFP news agency. 
 
 "We don't know what we should do now. Do we have to catch a boat?" 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Croatia says it will receive the migrants or facilitate their journey onwards 
 
 They crossed into Croatia where police began registering them. 
 
 Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic told parliament that authorities were "entirely ready to receive or direct those people where they want to go, which is obviously Germany or Scandinavian countries". 
 
 "They will be able to pass through Croatia and we will help, we're getting ready for that possibility," he said. 
 
 A meeting of the Croatian National Security Council has been called to co-ordinate the response. 
 
 Croatian media have warned of the dangers posed by landmines dating back to Croatia's war of independence in the early 1990s, even though experts say the areas are clearly marked. 
 
 Serbia worried 
 
 The Serbian minister in charge of the government's working committee on migrants, Aleksandar Vulin, argued that the closure of the border by Hungary was unsustainable for Serbia. 
 
 He told the BBC's Lyse Doucet that contact between Serbian and Hungarian officials had been minimal. 
 
 Analysis: BBC's Guy Delauney, Belgrade 
 
 All year, Serbia has taken a relaxed attitude towards the migrants and refugees entering from neighbouring Macedonia. 
 
 The authorities understood that few of the people coming in would want to stay, although some expressed regret that people desperately fleeing conflict did not view Serbia as a desirable destination. 
 
 But Hungary's fence and its criminalisation of unofficial border crossings has brought a halt to the flow of people across Serbia. 
 
 If an exit into Hungary becomes impossible, the number of refugees here may begin to rise, challenging not only the country's capacity for dealing with asylum seekers but its citizens' hitherto admirable tolerance and empathy. 
 
 Serbian alarm over stranded migrants 
 
 Hungary has also said it could extend its fence to the border with Romania - a possible new route. 
 
 Romania said this would violate the "European spirit" of co-operation. 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption The Hungarian border fence has left hundreds stranded in Serbia 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption Migrants are angry at the Hungarian decision which has all but stopped the flow
– More than 500 migrants have been detained for illegally entering Hungary or breaching a border fence, with nearly 50 criminal cases on the books since new laws took effect yesterday, the New York Times reports, while the BBC notes that Hungarian riot police today fired tear gas at migrants trying to break through the border with Serbia. And as restrictions tighten, migrants are seeking other ways into Western Europe through Slovenia and Croatia, as well as through Hungary's border with Romania. Issues remain: Hungary’s poorer neighbors may be ill-equipped to handle the flow, and there are areas peppered with land mines, remnants of the Balkan Wars. While solutions are sought, thousands spent last night in a Vienna train station, per the Times, while at least 22 migrants drowned yesterday in the Aegean Sea, the Post notes—a sad repeat of a similar incident a couple of days earlier. Leaders of neighboring nations are scrambling to come up with their own plans for dealing with the influx, which is no small task: The EU border agency notes a head count of 500,000 migrants at EU nations' entry points so far in 2015; last year that number was around 280,000, the BBC reports. Many are refugees fleeing high-conflict areas such as Syria and Iraq, per the Washington Post, which adds there's a noted "absence of a coordinated policy for the unprecedented influx." "Barbed wire in Europe in the 21st century is not an answer, it's a threat," Croatia's PM says, per the Post, adding that Croatia would "accept and direct" migrants through his country. An Egyptian billionaire who says he wants "to clear my conscience as a human being" has come up with an even more creative stopgap for the Syrian refugees involved: hosting them on two available Greek islands, using a joint-stock company to accept donations, Bloomberg reports. (The US is trying to help out.)