Hungary court orders arrest of 4 men in migrant truck deaths
By PABLO GORONDI Four men suspected of being involved in the deaths of 71 migrants found in a truck in Austria were placed under preliminary arrest on Saturday by a…
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The Latest: UN: 100 migrants rescued off Libya; 200 missing
By The Associated Press Here are the latest developments Friday regarding the tens of thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe. ___ 12:40 p.m. U.N. authorities say 100 people have…
Greece moves closer to announcement of early election date
By ELENA BECATOROS Greece came one step closer on Thursday to early elections with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos appointing the head of the country’s Supreme Court as caretaker prime minister to…
Austria finds 20, maybe even 50, migrants dead in truck
By RONALD ZAK Austrian police on Thursday discovered the badly decomposing bodies of at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — migrants piled in a truck parked on…
Hungary border fence proves futile in slowing migrant flow
By BELA SZANDELSZKY Clambering over the razor-wire fence or scuttling under it, migrants surged Wednesday across the Serbian border into Hungary. Then they jostled to formally enter the country so…
Global markets rebound as China cuts rates to help economy
By JOE McDONALD Global markets rebounded Tuesday after China’s central bank cut its key interest rate to support growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Earlier, China’s main stock index closed…
Global market plunge intensifies on fears over China
By ELAINE KURTENBACH World stock markets plunged and Wall Street was due to suffer heavy losses on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 percent amid fears over the health…
Wave of EU-bound migrants crosses into Serbia
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC In a new human wave surging through the Balkans, thousands of exhausted migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossed on foot Monday from Macedonia into…