Hungary declared a crisis in two southern counties Tuesday, as crowds of refugees and other migrants were halted in Serbia, having missed Tuesday's deadline before new and stricter laws took effect.
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.
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.
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 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."
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.
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.
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.