INTERNATIONAL

Hungary’s army has begun exercises to prepare for a possible future role in guarding the southern border to try to stem the influx of migrants. Budapest plans to send soldiers to help police at the border where thousands of migrants arrive from Serbia every day. A new razor-wire barrier is already being built along the frontier. MPs are expected to ...

The Queen has thanked well-wishers at home and overseas for their “touching messages of kindness” as she becomes Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old monarch said the title was “not one to which I have ever aspired”. At about 17:30 BST the Queen will have reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes – ...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is due to announce plans to tackle Europe’s worst migrant crisis since World War Two. Under the proposals, 120,000 asylum seekers will be distributed among EU member countries, with binding quotas. This comes after thousands of mainly Syrian migrants began trekking northwards through Europe this weekend. Hungary has been warned to expect an additional 40,000 ...

Pope Francis is expected to announce revisions on Tuesday to the process by which Catholics may annul their marriages in yet another sign of the pontiff pushing his church to be more welcoming and merciful. A brief statement from the Vatican does not detail the proposed reforms, but Francis has said that obtaining annulments can be too cumbersome and costly, ...

The Greek government and the UN refugee agency have brought in extra staff and ships to deal with some 25,000 stranded migrants on the island of Lesbos. A processing centre has been also set up on an abandoned football ground to help the migrants to get to Athens. A Greek minister said on Monday Lesbos was “on the verge of ...

Two British fighters with so-called Islamic State were killed by an RAF drone strike in Syria in an “act of self-defence”, David Cameron has said. Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan was targeted in Raqqa on 21 August and died alongside Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, and another fighter, the PM told MPs. Khan, 21, had been plotting “barbaric” attacks on UK soil, he ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the “breathtaking” flow of migrants into Germany will “occupy and change” the country in the coming years. She said Germany would speed up asylum procedures and build extra housing, but called on other EU states to help. French President Francois Hollande said quotas for EU countries to relocate 120,000 migrants were being planned and that ...

Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4m) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx. Critics at home have accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of creating a dangerous precedent by opening Germany’s borders. About 18,000 migrants arrived over the weekend after an agreement with Austria and Hungary to relax asylum rules. But ...

Six people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed after a car veered off the road during a car rally in north-western Spain. Police said that 16 people had been injured, some critically, after the accident at the A Coruna car rally. Television footage showed the car crashing off the road into spectators in a cloud of dust. Police said ...

Austria and Germany are expecting thousands more migrants to arrive from Hungary after Budapest eased restrictions on their travel. Throughout Saturday, by bus, train and on foot, people travelled to the Austrian border before moving on to Vienna and Munich. Austrian officials are laying on more trains as needed. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to hold talks with her coalition ...