Arab diaspora

More than 100 Syrian refugees have been rescued from the Mediterranean after their boat ran into trouble off the southern coast of Greej Cyprus, authorities said on Sept. 6.

Thousands of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria from Hungary on Sept. 5, after Vienna and Berlin agreed to take in thousands of refugees desperate to start new lives in Western Europe.
  

The Hungarian parliament on Friday adopted emergency legislation to stem an influx in migrants and refugees crossing its southern border with Serbia in an attempt to reach western Europe, AFP reported.

The new legislation will allow army and police to operate detention centres in registration camps and assist border guards in registering asylum applications.

Hungarian authorities were locked in a stand-off with migrants who left Budapest?s main train station on foot for Austria, while the U.K. said it would take thousands more Syrian refugees as the crisis gripping Europe mounted.

Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sept. 4 amid growing pressure at home and abroad to address the crisis.

His name did not appear in agency bulletins. He is also somebody?s son, like the 3-year old Syrian toddler Aylan al-Kurdi whose dead body was swept by the waves of the Aegean Sea to Turkey?s Bodrum shores as the boat carrying them to Greek island of Kos sunk early September 2. 

Pictures of the dead body of a small boy swept to Turkey?s Aegean cost on the morning of Sept. 2 shattered the hearts of millions in the country.

At least 12 migrants believed to be Syrians drowned as two boats sank after leaving southwest Turkey for the Greek island of Kos, Do?an News Agency reported on Sept. 2.

Germany is not to blame for the stream of Syrian refugees in Hungary trying to board trains headed for Germany, Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.

Hungary's government said earlier that Germany's "more flexible attitude" toward Syrians was a problem that encourages migration.

A total of 3,650 migrants reached Vienna by train on Aug.31, this year's biggest daily number, Austrian police said, after Hungarian authorities allowed people stuck in makeshift refugee camps to leave Budapest despite many not having EU visas.