GERMANY

Britain has a “moral responsibility” to resettle refugees now living in camps in Syria, Jordan and Turkey, Prime Minister David Cameron says.

The EU executive has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which Germany will take in more than 40,000.

The European country is expecting a record influx of as many as 800,000 refugees this year.

Alexis Tsipras, who led Greece through bitter bailout talks with the country's creditors, stepped down last month.

The blaze broke out at a shelter, housing more than 80 people, in the town of Rottenburg in the western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

ormer Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras played down fears on Sunday that a snap election in two weeks would produce a fractured result, saying there were enough undecided voters to produce a clear winner on the day.

Many opposed to granting the refugees asylum have pointed to what they say are the untenable costs of harboring so many foreign citizens.

"The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers," German Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

Both Austria and Germany opened their borders Saturday to thousands of refugees who had been staying temporarily in Hungary.

As Europe engages in a bout of soul-searching over its treatment of refugees, Gulf Arab states that have taken in no Syrian refugees are coming under increasing scrutiny.

 “I don’t rule out any location, any unused building is a possibility.”

The death highlights the severe conditions experienced by refugees attempting to reach Western Europe.

"We never get an evening meal, and often we don’t have water. I have been here for five months."

At the massive IFA electronics show in Berlin, Samsung and Apple took a back seat to Huawei, Sony, Lenovo and ZTE.

As tens of thousands pour into Europe, Germany is a favored destination. But as IBT learned in Berlin, Syrians are not being welcomed with open arms.

As the laws were passed Friday, refugees set out on foot toward Austria.

European leaders have begun switching their positions in order to confront the mounting refugee crisis in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the solution to the ongoing crisis was to have the international community work together to fight terrorism.

Refugees in Hungary are fleeing trash-strewn camps after reportedly being tricked into going there by boarding trains supposedly bound for Austria.

Reports suggest that the U.S. and the EU have agreed to contentious provisions seeking to address weather-linked loss and damage in poor nations.

A little-known German company has launched its first-ever smartphone and rather than appeal to the budget end, it is going directly up against Apple and Samsung.