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"Every Day I Want To Be Home": Ukrainian Family's Year In Refuge
"Love home," it says on the wall of the Titkovs' cozy flat in Vienna. The poster has a particular poignancy for the Ukrainian family who were forced to flee their home in Irpin in the suburbs of Kyiv nearly a year ago.
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Austria Ready To Deploy Army At Italy Border
Austria will "very soon" impose border checks and deploy soldiers on its frontier with Italy if the influx of migrants across the Mediterranean does not slow, Vienna's defence minister was quoted as saying Monday.
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Austria To Fine Or Jail Migrants Who Lie To Authorities
Austria plans to jail or fine asylum seekers who lie to the authorities, a move aimed partly at dissuading migrants from trying to settle, it said on Tuesday.
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Reducing Migrants 'Question Of Survival For EU': Austria
Reducing the flow of migrants is a "question of survival" for the European Union, Austria's interior minister said today as she pressed Balkan countries in Vienna to help cut the record influx.
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Austria Foreign Minister Says Asylum Seeker Cap Is 'Wake-Up Call' For European Union
Vienna's decision to cap its asylum seeker intake serves as a "wake-up call" to push Europe to find a common solution to resolve its migrant crisis, Austria's foreign minister said today.
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Smile, It's An Emergency: Clowning Around With Refugees
It's miserable and raining outside as a few hundred tired migrants mill around a damp underpass at Vienna's main train station waiting to continue their long journey to northern Europe.
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Thousands March in Vienna to Show Support for Migrants
More than 20,000 people took to the streets in Vienna on Saturday to show support for migrants and reject a recent upswing in support for Austria's right-wing, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO).
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Austria Shuts Motorway on Hungary Border as Migrants Walk to Vienna
Austria shut its A4 motorway on the Hungarian border for security reasons today morning as dozens of migrants were on their way towards Vienna on foot, a spokesman for the police in the eastern province of Burgenland said.
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Austria to Lift Measures That Let Migrants Cross From Hungary
Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary to stream into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning.
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Austrian Leader Calls for Emergency European Union Summit on Migrant Crisis
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann called Sunday for an emergency EU summit to resolve the migrant crisis, saying his country's admittance of thousands of refugees crossing from Hungary was just a "temporary" measure.
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Monday's Migrant Influx By Rail to Vienna Biggest This Year: Police
A total of 3,650 migrants reached Vienna by train Monday, 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.
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20,000 Demonstrate in Austria After Migrant Truck Tragedy: Police
Around 20,000 people demonstrated in Vienna on Monday against ill-treatment of migrants after the bodies of 71 refugees were found in an abandoned truck last week, police said.
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Hundreds of Migrants Travel to Vienna After Lengthy Border Checks
A train carrying hundreds of migrants headed to Vienna on Monday after being held for hours at Austria's border with Hungary amid a security clampdown on trafficking gangs and efforts to apply fraying European rules intended to manage the flow of refugees.
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Austria Toughens Border Controls in Trafficking Clampdown
Austrian authorities toughened controls along the country's eastern borders on Monday, stopping hundreds of refugees and arresting five traffickers in a clampdown that followed last week's gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in a truck.
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Migrant Crisis to Hijack Western Balkans Summit
Europe's raging migrant crisis is set to hijack a summit in Vienna of leaders from the western Balkans region on Thursday that will also be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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"Every Day I Want To Be Home": Ukrainian Family's Year In Refuge
"Love home," it says on the wall of the Titkovs' cozy flat in Vienna. The poster has a particular poignancy for the Ukrainian family who were forced to flee their home in Irpin in the suburbs of Kyiv nearly a year ago.
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Austria Ready To Deploy Army At Italy Border
Austria will "very soon" impose border checks and deploy soldiers on its frontier with Italy if the influx of migrants across the Mediterranean does not slow, Vienna's defence minister was quoted as saying Monday.
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Austria To Fine Or Jail Migrants Who Lie To Authorities
Austria plans to jail or fine asylum seekers who lie to the authorities, a move aimed partly at dissuading migrants from trying to settle, it said on Tuesday.
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Reducing Migrants 'Question Of Survival For EU': Austria
Reducing the flow of migrants is a "question of survival" for the European Union, Austria's interior minister said today as she pressed Balkan countries in Vienna to help cut the record influx.
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Austria Foreign Minister Says Asylum Seeker Cap Is 'Wake-Up Call' For European Union
Vienna's decision to cap its asylum seeker intake serves as a "wake-up call" to push Europe to find a common solution to resolve its migrant crisis, Austria's foreign minister said today.
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Smile, It's An Emergency: Clowning Around With Refugees
It's miserable and raining outside as a few hundred tired migrants mill around a damp underpass at Vienna's main train station waiting to continue their long journey to northern Europe.
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Thousands March in Vienna to Show Support for Migrants
More than 20,000 people took to the streets in Vienna on Saturday to show support for migrants and reject a recent upswing in support for Austria's right-wing, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO).
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Austria Shuts Motorway on Hungary Border as Migrants Walk to Vienna
Austria shut its A4 motorway on the Hungarian border for security reasons today morning as dozens of migrants were on their way towards Vienna on foot, a spokesman for the police in the eastern province of Burgenland said.
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Austria to Lift Measures That Let Migrants Cross From Hungary
Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary to stream into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning.
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Austrian Leader Calls for Emergency European Union Summit on Migrant Crisis
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann called Sunday for an emergency EU summit to resolve the migrant crisis, saying his country's admittance of thousands of refugees crossing from Hungary was just a "temporary" measure.
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Monday's Migrant Influx By Rail to Vienna Biggest This Year: Police
A total of 3,650 migrants reached Vienna by train Monday, 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.
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20,000 Demonstrate in Austria After Migrant Truck Tragedy: Police
Around 20,000 people demonstrated in Vienna on Monday against ill-treatment of migrants after the bodies of 71 refugees were found in an abandoned truck last week, police said.
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Hundreds of Migrants Travel to Vienna After Lengthy Border Checks
A train carrying hundreds of migrants headed to Vienna on Monday after being held for hours at Austria's border with Hungary amid a security clampdown on trafficking gangs and efforts to apply fraying European rules intended to manage the flow of refugees.
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Austria Toughens Border Controls in Trafficking Clampdown
Austrian authorities toughened controls along the country's eastern borders on Monday, stopping hundreds of refugees and arresting five traffickers in a clampdown that followed last week's gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in a truck.
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Migrant Crisis to Hijack Western Balkans Summit
Europe's raging migrant crisis is set to hijack a summit in Vienna of leaders from the western Balkans region on Thursday that will also be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
