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A boy sits on his father's shoulders, part of a crowd of migrants waiting to board a train leaving for the Austrian border at the Keleti railway station in Budapest.

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Trained In Budapest, Middle Eastern Doctors Return To Aid Migrants

12:31am September 14, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

Budapest's medical school attracts students from all over the world. Many return to their countries of origin to practice medicine. Some graduates have come back to Budapest now to care for refugees.

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A migrant takes care of her baby at a collection point near the Serbian-Hungarian border in Roszke, Hungary, on Saturday.

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Germany Imposes Border Controls To Stem Flow Of Migrants

3:34pm September 13, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said trains between Austria and Germany would be suspended for 12 hours "to return to orderly procedures" for entering the country.

Camerawoman Petra Laszlo trips a migrant holding a young boy as he tries to run past a police collection point in Hungary. "I'm not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman," Laszlo later said.

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Camerawoman Who Tripped Migrant In Hungary Apologizes

10:15am September 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Petra Laszlo, who was caught on video sticking her leg out as a man ran from police while clutching a child to his chest, says she is sorry — and not "heartless."

A videographer for a Hungarian TV network trips a migrant holding a young boy who was running away from police. The camerawoman was fired.

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Camerawoman Fired For Tripping Migrant Who Fled Police

12:12pm September 09, 2015

by Bill Chappell

A video shows a journalist sticking her leg out as a man carrying a young boy attempts to run past police in Hungary. The TV network's editor in chief says his colleague "behaved unacceptably."

A man is confronted by a Hungarian police officer with a dog as he holds his daughter in an area where migrants ran over a motorway from a collection point set up to transport people to camps in Morahalom, Hungary, Wednesday.

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New Bottleneck Of Migrants Forms In Hungary's Detention Centers

7:35am September 09, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The president of the European Union is calling on countries to welcome their share of what the U.N. predicts will be at least 850,000 migrants over the next two years.

Hungarians line up tiny shoes to donate to refugee kids on the run, on Hungary-Serbia border

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In Today's Migrant Crisis, Echoes Of Hungary's Troubled Past

2:02pm September 08, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

A Holocaust survivor, liberated 70 years ago from a concentration camp, fled Budapest in Hungary's 1956 uprising against Soviet control. He knows what it means to be uprooted and today helps refugees.

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A migrant girl holds a sign expressing her love to Germany as she arrives at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, on Saturday. Hundreds of refugees arrived in a train from Munich to be transported by bus to an accomodation center.

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Trainloads Of Migrants Begin Arriving In Germany

4:01pm September 06, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Thousands of refugees, mainly escaping conflict in Syria and Iraq, began arriving in Munich after transiting through Austria.

Abdel Mounan, an Iraqi refugee, holds his young daughter. After two days in a refugee camp in Hungary, Munan says he'd rather die than return to Iraq.

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Austria, Germany Agree To Take Migrants Stopped In Hungary

7:36am September 06, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Groups of the refugees earlier had left a rail station and stopped train and begun walking toward Austria. Also: The father of a 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea buries his family.

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Austrians Applaud As Busloads Of Syrian Refugees Cross Border

5:54am September 05, 2015

by L. Carol Ritchie

More than 1,000 weary Syrian refugees were greeted with food and applause at the Austrian border after arriving by busloads from a long, chaotic journey through Hungary.

Migrants charge their cellphones at Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday.

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Migrants Refuse To Leave Train At Refugee Camp In Hungary

4:21pm September 03, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Police in Budapest lifted a two-day blockade of the Keleti station, allowing migrants to enter. But some inadvertently boarded trains bound for a refugee camp outside the capital.