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8. April 2017, 21:58

Migrants barred from Hungary station

Hundreds of migrants and refugees have been protesting outside Budapest's Eastern railway station demanding they be allowed to travel to Germany after the Hungarian government denied them entry. The station was briefly closed to all travellers while authorities cleared the building. It has since been re-opened to ordinary travellers only. A Hungarian government spokesman has said Budapest is trying to enforce European Union asylum law. Germany has confirmed that EU laws requiring refugees to register for asylum in the first EU country they enter remain in force. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban is to hold an emergency meeting with EU leaders on the crisis on Thursday.

Thousands of refugees arrive in Vienna

Austrian police have confirmed that over 3,600 refugees who had been allowed through by Hungary yesterday had arrived by train at Vienna's Westbahnhof. Only six applied for asylum in Austria, most continuing on to Germany. Another over 1500 refugees spent last night at Salzburg’s main railway station.

New arrests in lorry deaths

Austrian authorities have announced that two more arrests have been made in connection with the deaths of 71 apparent refugees whose bodies were found in an abandoned lorry in Burgenland last Thursday. One man was arrested in Bulgaria and another in Hungary. Seven people are now in investigative detention in connection with the tragedy.

Second officer dies in Ukraine violence

Ukraine’s interior ministry says a second police officer has died from injuries following clashes outside parliament in Kiev yesterday. 130 officers and 11 demonstrators were injured. Protests had broken out over the introduction of laws granting greater autonomy to eastern regions under the control of pro-Russian separatists.

Obama appeals for climate action

United States president Barack Obama at a meeting of foreign ministers of Arctic nations has appealed for urgent action on climate change. Obama said a global deal has to be struck at the UN climate summit in Paris in December this year. “Human activity is disrupting the climate, in many ways faster than we previously thought. The science is stark. It proves that this once distant threat is now very much in the present.”

Second suspect arrested in Thai bombing

Thailand has arrested a second foreign suspect in connection with the bombing of a shrine in Bangkok earlier this month, in which 20 people died. Authorities said the suspect was arrested on the border with Cambodia.

The weather

Mainly sunny. Rain and showers in the west toward evening. Top temperatures 27 to 36 degrees.

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