REFUGEE CRISIS

As the refugee crisis continues to rock Europe, the U.S. has stepped up to take more Syrian refugees.

“We know that many of them want to go to Sweden, but naturally we cannot let that happen."

The number of working-age people in the European Union has been shrinking compared with those retiring.

Last weekend, 22,000 people arrived in Germany by train, but less than a third will gain official refugee status and be allowed to stay.

Hundreds of refugees overwhelmed a small Hungarian children's home. Now the children have gone missing and it's unlikely they will ever be accounted for.

Hundreds of refugees flooded Budapest's Keleti railway station Wednesday, desperately trying to leave Hungary.

“Similar to ourselves, they have aspirations for university, for careers," said one aid worker.

The far-right leaders have accused Muslim refugees of posing a threat to France's national security.

The police action continued as European Union leaders debated a quota system to ease the crisis.

Hungarian media reported that two refugees had been identified as militants.

The inserts in the newspapers also included a statement from Berlin's mayor reassuring refugees that "the German capital is an open, tolerant and international metropolis."

EU nations have to agree to take in an additional 120,000 asylum seekers by next week, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday.

A train station in Hungary has become a shelter for desperate refugees as well as a sightseeing destination for locals.

Following the pope's call for local parishes to assist refugee families, European communities are planning their responses.

An online petition that has gathered over a thousand signatures calls for U.S. officials to raise the limit on the number of Syrian refugees coming into the country.

Denmark placed ads in Lebanese newspapers to dissuade refugees from trying to seek asylum there.

Some 300 of the refugees continued to a highway escorted by police, chanting "Germany, Germany," as they headed to Budapest, more than 100 miles away.

Opportunistic smugglers have reportedly helped small groups of ISIS fighters travel from southern Turkey into Europe.

The Hungarian defense minister resigned Monday because armed forces have been slow in building a fence along the Serbian border to refugees out.

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

The U.S. has fallen short on pledges to share the burden of the growing Syrian refugee crisis with countries such as Lebanon.