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VIDEO: Hungary warns over travel restrictions

Sunday, September 6th 2015, 22:34
related countries: Germany Germany, Hungary Hungary

A convoy of cars driven by German and Austrian activists has crossed into Hungary to pick up migrants and help them reach Western Europe.
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VIDEO: Warm welcome for migrants in Munich

Sunday, September 6th 2015, 22:29
related countries: Germany Germany
related places: Munich

Thousands more migrants and refugees have continued to make their way to Austria and Germany.
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Activist convoy picks up migrants

Sunday, September 6th 2015, 16:28
related countries: Germany Germany, Hungary Hungary
related places: Budapest

A convoy of private cars crosses from Austria to Hungary to collect stranded migrants, as thousands continue to make their way to western Europe.
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Austria and Germany welcome migrants

Sunday, September 6th 2015, 2:23
related countries: Hungary Hungary

Austria and Germany welcome thousands of migrants who crossed the border after days stuck in Hungary, but Berlin warns its stance will not set a precedent.
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Thousands of migrants reach Austria

Saturday, September 5th 2015, 12:17
related countries: Germany Germany, Hungary Hungary
related places: Vienna

Thousands of exhausted migrants cross into Austria after Hungary's surprise move to provide buses to take them to the border.
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VIDEO: Germany prepares for migrant arrivals

Saturday, September 5th 2015, 10:46
related places: Vienna

The BBC's Jenny Hill reports from Munich central station, where up to 6,000 migrants are expected to arrive on trains from Vienna.
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Austria opens border to migrants

Saturday, September 5th 2015, 0:26
related countries: Hungary Hungary

The Austrian chancellor says his country - and Germany - have agreed to let migrants cross their borders from Hungary.
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VIDEO: Marching migrant: 'We're off to Austria'

Friday, September 4th 2015, 16:47
related countries: Hungary Hungary
related places: Budapest

Matthew Price speaks to one of hundreds of migrants who say they intend to walk to Austria from Budapest railway station.
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VIDEO: Hundreds march to Austria border

Friday, September 4th 2015, 15:53
related countries: Hungary Hungary
related places: Budapest

Hundreds of migrants stuck at a Budapest railway station for days have set off on foot, saying they intend to walk to Austria.
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VIDEO: Anger as Budapest station shuts

Tuesday, September 1st 2015, 21:38
related countries: Hungary Hungary
related places: Budapest, Vienna

Hundreds of migrants have been protesting outside a major railway station in the Hungarian capital after police sealed off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU.
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Migrant trains reach Munich station

Tuesday, September 1st 2015, 8:26
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong
related places: Vienna

Trains carrying more than 1,000 migrants arrive in Germany, as Hungary closes a major rail station in an attempt to bring the crisis under control.
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Arrests as Austria tightens border

Monday, August 31st 2015, 11:50
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

Austrian authorities say they have detained five suspected people smugglers as they tighten the Hungarian border after the deaths of 71 migrants.
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EU calls crisis talks on migration

Monday, August 31st 2015, 9:01

The EU announces emergency talks on the migrant crisis, as Austria reimposes border checks on lorries to stop people-smuggling.
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Migrants 'vanish' from Austria hospital

Sunday, August 30th 2015, 21:35
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

Three Syrian children and their families disappear from an Austrian hospital where they were treated after being rescued from an overcrowded minivan.
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VIDEO: Children found in van 'recovering'

Sunday, August 30th 2015, 7:21

Three children are recovering in hospital in Austria after being rescued from a minivan containing 26 migrants.
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New Austria migrant vehicle found

Saturday, August 29th 2015, 18:28
related countries: Bangladesh Bangladesh, Syria Syria

Three children are in hospital after Austrian police stop a minivan carrying 26 migrants, days after 71 people are found dead in an abandoned lorry.
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VIDEO: Four in court over Austria migrant deaths

Saturday, August 29th 2015, 18:12
related countries: Hungary Hungary

Four suspects appear in Hungary court over Austria migrant lorry deaths.
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Migrant truck deaths accused in court

Saturday, August 29th 2015, 15:02
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan, Hungary Hungary

Three Bulgarians and an Afghan appear in court in Hungary in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in the back of a lorry in Austria.
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Four held over Austria lorry deaths

Friday, August 28th 2015, 19:16

Hungarian police arrest four people over the discovery of the bodies of 71 migrants, thought to be Syrian, in an abandoned lorry in Austria.
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VIDEO: 'No ventilation' in migrant lorry

Friday, August 28th 2015, 14:16
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

James Reynolds reports from the Austrian customs building where a lorry containing the bodies of 71 dead migrants was towed from where it was discovered abandoned near the Hungarian border.
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Austria police examine lorry bodies

Friday, August 28th 2015, 5:31
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

Police in Austria work through the night to establish how many people died in a lorry found abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border.
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Grim find in Austria migrant lorry

Thursday, August 27th 2015, 19:03

The decomposing bodies of between 20 and 50 migrants have been found in a lorry abandoned in eastern Austria, near the Hungarian border, police say.
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Plea for EU answer to migrant crisis

Thursday, August 27th 2015, 14:40
related countries: Macedonia Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
related places: Vienna

Serbia and Macedonia tell a summit in Vienna the EU must come up with an action plan to respond to the influx of migrants into Europe.
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VIDEO: 'EU asylum system isn't working'

Wednesday, August 26th 2015, 20:33
related countries: Ireland Ireland
related places: Dublin

Austria's Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz, says the Dublin regulation, which is part of the EU's asylum policy, is not working.
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Chart success for minute of silence

Friday, August 21st 2015, 16:44

A minute of silence released by an Austrian artist to protest against the treatment of refugees is topping online music charts.
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VIDEO: Vienna hotel run by refugees

Saturday, August 15th 2015, 23:00
related places: Vienna

A new hotel has opened in Vienna - run mainly by refugees.
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Austria refugee camp 'shameful'

Friday, August 14th 2015, 22:07

Human rights group Amnesty International issues harsh criticism of what it calls "inhumane" conditions at Austria's main refugee camp.
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VIDEO: Inside nuclear team's analysis labs

Monday, July 27th 2015, 14:59
related places: Vienna

Bethany Bell gets an exclusive look at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) laboratory near Vienna.
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