INTERNATIONAL

EU ministers are to meet to try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe. A group of central European states is resisting calls for EU members to accept mandatory quotas. Hungary, which takes one of the strongest lines on the issue, has said European borders are under threat. The arrival ...

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning a second general election in less than nine months. But he said Greeks faced a difficult road and recovery from financial crisis would only come through hard work. With nearly all votes counted, Syriza had won more than 35%. That was short of a majority, ...

The son of the ruler of Dubai died of a heart attack Saturday morning, state-run WAM news agency reported. Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was 34, according to United Arab Emirates authorities. Al Maktoum’s funeral will be held Saturday, the start of a three-day mourning period in Dubai. He was the eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed bin ...

Pope Francis has called for the Church in Cuba to have “the freedom and the means” to pursue its mission, on his first visit to the island. He also hailed improving ties between the US and Cuba as “an example of reconciliation for the whole world”. The Pope was greeted by President Raul Castro after landing in the capital, Havana. ...

Migrants stranded in Croatia have been making renewed efforts to head north despite moves by Slovenia and Hungary to hold them back. Slovenian police used pepper spray on Friday night to disperse a group trying to cross from Croatia. Hungary, meanwhile, accused Croatia of breaking international law after asylum seekers were sent over the border without first being registered. The ...

Migrants flooding into Croatia are being moved to the Hungary border, with PM Zoran Milanovic saying his country cannot become a “migrant hotspot”. Up to 20 buses carried migrants to the border on Friday, although Hungary says it is building a new fence there. Croatia earlier closed seven of eight road crossings to Serbia after 14,000 migrants entered over the ...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament. He gave the same one during his state-of-the-nation address on 25 August, when he was heckled by opposition MPs. His spokesman told the state-run Herald paper the error was because of a mix-up in the president’s secretarial office. The BBC’s Brian Hungwe in Harare says ...

Hundreds of migrants have spent the night at the closed Hungary-Serbia border, with many facing the choice of finding a new route to northern Europe. Serbian media said buses were now being redirected to Croatia, with migrants then planning to move on to Slovenia, Austria – and finally Germany. There have also been suggestions that Romania may become a new ...

Hundreds of migrants are stranded at the Serbia-Hungary border after the Hungarian government closed the frontier with a new razor-wire fence. The move aims to stop migrants who are trying to enter the EU. After new Hungarian laws came into effect overnight, police sealed a railway crossing point that had been used by tens of thousands of migrants. Some have ...

Egypt has apologised after 12 people, including eight Mexican tourists, were mistakenly killed by security forces in an anti-terror operation. The group had permission to travel to a remote area of the Western Desert, tourism officials said. However the interior ministry insists they entered a restricted area. Egypt has been battling Islamist militants for years, with attacks escalating since the ...