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When the Communists took control of Hungary in 1949, my parents' textile shop (and everything that was in it) was taken from them. They were considered the "bourgeoisie," and therefore dangerous. That same year, 1949, my grandfather was sentenced to ten years hard labor by the Communists
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European and Balkan leaders agreed on measures early Monday to slow the movement of tens of thousands whose flight from war and poverty has overwhelmed border guards and reception centers and heightened tension among nations along the route to the European Union's heartland. In a statement
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AT THE SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER (AP) — At the edge of a Balkan vineyard, Mohammed al-Haj lay down under a tree to collect his thoughts. Come nightfall, he and the other Syrians with him would make a run for it, past the fence of chain-link and barbed wire being built along the
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Written by Radul Radovanovic and Jovana Gec TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) — Thousands of people are pouring into Croatia, turning that nation into the latest hotspot in the 1,000-mile plus exodus toward Western Europe after Hungary used tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons to keep migrants out of its territory.
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Written by Karin Laub AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The influx of refugees to Europe was triggered in part by donors taking the "cheap option" and not giving enough aid to displaced Syrians in Middle Eastern asylum countries, the head of the U.N. refugee agency in Jordan said in
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Two German newspapers have published a special supplement in Arabic, welcoming refugees and giving them advice on where to go for services. The top-selling Bild newspaper and Berlin's BZ, both produced by the same publisher, put out the four-page insert in Wednesday's editions, headlined "Welcome
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Written by Frank Jordans and George Jahn BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on "a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us," said Monday that all EU countries could help to accommodate the human tide from the Middle East and Africa.
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Written by Shawn Pogatchnik BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest's main international railway station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other European Union countries to the west.
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