Migrant crisis in Europe
Migrants break through the cordon of Macedonian police forces near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia. The Gevgelija-Presevo journey is just a part of the journey that the migrants take from Turkey, across Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to Hungary, the gateway to the European Union.
(NAKE BATEV / EPA)Tens of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty are trying to reach safety in Europe. This summer’s unprecedented exodus from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and other nations in turmoil has inundated southern Europe and exhausted the generosity of countries suffering their own economic woes.
A child walks along a railway track at the Hungary-Serbia border, near the town of Horgos, Serbia.
(ARMEND NIMANI / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants arrive at the border line between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern Hungary.
(Matthias Schrader / Associated Press)Migrants walk after crossing the border between Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia.
(NAKE BATEV / EPA)A local resident makes signals to migrants as they arrive at the coast of Mytilini, Lesvos island, on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey.
(ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU / EPA)Refugees from different countries are accompanied by police officers as they walk on railway tracks near Szeged, Hungary. Hungary’s border with Serbia has become a major crossing point into the European Union, with more than 160,000 entering Hungary so far this year.
(Attila Kisbenedek / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants try to stay on their sinking dinghy off the coast of the Lesbos island in Greece. A Greek passenger ferry sent its lifeboats to rescue 61 migrants whose boat was at risk of sinking off the island of Lesbos, port police said.
(Panayiotis Tzamarospanayiotis Tzamaros / AFP/Getty Images)Life vests left on the shore by incoming refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos.
(Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP/Getty Images)A migrant tries to recover after clashes with the police during a protest at the Lesvos Port in Greece, as migrants demand to be transferred immediately to Athens.
(Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP/Getty Images)A boy screams as migrants try to get food and water on the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni.
(Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images)Syrian refugees and migrants walk in a field to cross the border between Greece and Macedonia.
(Aris Messinis / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants crawl under a razor-wire fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, Hungary. As Europe struggles with its worst migrant crisis since World War II, Hungary has become, like Italy and Greece, a “frontline” state.
(Attila Kisbenedek / AFP/Getty Images)Refugees walk from the main train station after arriving in Dortmund, Germany, Sept. 6, 2015.
(Martin Meissner / AP)Migrants wave as they arrive at the main railway station in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 6.
(Christof Stache / AFP/Getty Images)A man holds a sign welcoming refugees in three languages at the main train station in Frankfurt, central Germany.
(Frank Rumpenhorst / Associated Press)A migrant girl holds a sign expressing her love to Germany as she arrives at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, on Saturday.
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Migrant children wait for the departure of a train at a Budapest, Hungary, railway station.
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A young migrant woman carries a baby as she leaves Budapest, Hungary, on a public bus to the border village of Hegyeshalom early Saturday.
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Migrants waiting outside the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary, hoping to travel to Western Europe protest after the station was closed by police.
(Tamas Kovacs / EPA)Migrants protest in front of the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary. The refugees arrived in Budapest via the so-called Balkan route, across Turkey, the Aegean Sea and Greece, Macedonia and Serbia.
(Tamas Kovacs / EPA)A fight breaks out between migrants among a massive crowd waiting to board trains at the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary.
(Attila Kisbenedek / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants, including children, protest at the Keleti railway station in Budapest.
(Attila Kisbenedek / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants protest at the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary, after it was closed by police.
(Tamas Kovacs / Associated Press)Rescuers collect the body of a migrant after a boat sank off the coast of Libya. Up to 200 people were feared dead in the latest capsizing on Aug. 27, 2015.
(Mohamed Ben Khalifa / Associated Press)Coffins with some of the 71 migrants whose bodies were found in a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway are unloaded at a forensics institute in Vienna.
(Dieter Nagl / AFP/Getty Images)A Greek police officer tries to control the crowd as migrants wait in the border town of Idomeni to be allowed to cross into Macedonia.
(Giannis Papanikos / Associated Press)Migrant families from Syria arrive in an inflatable dinghy on the Greek island of Kos after crossing a three-mile stretch of the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
(Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)Overcome with exhaustion after swimming the last 50 yards, a migrant from Syria lies on a beach on the Greek island of Kos after crossing a three-mile stretch of the Aegean Sea in a small boat from Turkey.
(Win McNamee / Getty Images)A migrant group walks between the railroad tracks near Roszke village on the Hungarian-Serbian border.
(Attila Kisbenedek / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants are seen behind a fence as they arrive at a refugee center in the town of Presevo, after walking from Macedonia to Serbia.
(Armend Nimani / AFP/Getty Images)Syrian refugees walk along the roads of Idomeni, in northern Greece, to cross the border into Macedonia.
(Santi Palacios / Associated Press)Police try to block migrants entering Macedonia from Greece, near the southern town of Gevgelija.
(Vlatko Perkovski / Associated Press)Migrants pass through the border from Greece into Macedonia near the town of Idomeni in Northern Greece.
(Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP/Getty Images)A woman looks up at police blocking a group of migrants trying to cross the Macedonian-Greek border near the town of Gevgelija.
(Robert Atanasovski / AFP/Getty Images)A crew member of the Irish Navy vessel LE Niamh holds a rescued baby as migrants disembark at the Messina harbor in Sicily, Italy.
(Carmelo Imbesi / Associated Press)A Syrian woman carries her baby after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos in an inflatable boat from Turkey. An unprecedented spike in refugee arrivals on Greek shores is pushing the resort island of Lesbos to “breaking point.”
(Achilleas Zavallis / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants on a dinghy arrives at the island of Kos, in Greece, after crossing from Turkey.
(Alexander Zemlianichenko / Associated Press)A Sudanese migrant gets a hair cut at a camp near Calais, France. Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain.
(Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)Migrants wait to receive food distributed by Macedonian volunteers at the train station in Gevgelija on the Macedonian-Greek border.
(Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants try to board a train to Serbia in the town of Gevgelija, on the Macedonian-Greek border.
(Robert Atanasovski / AFP/Getty Images)Local residents and rescue workers help a woman after a boat carrying migrants sank off the island of Rhodes in southeastern Greece. At least three people, including a child, died when the boat carrying more than 80 people sank.
(Argiris Mantikos / AFP/Getty Images)Migrants are rescued by Italian Coast Guard scuba divers, seen bottom left, in Pantelleria, Italy. Officials say two women drowned while attempting to reach Italy from North Africa after their boat with 250 people aboard went off course and ran aground just off an Italian island.
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