Saturday, September 5, 2015

Clashes in European cities as Mideast refugee crisis erupts

Clashes broke out between police and some 1,000 migrants attempting to storm a ferry on the Aegean island of Lesbos Friday, and 500 migrants broke through a police barricade in Hungary, marching towards the Austrian border as hundreds of thousands of mostly Syrians and Afghans flee the horrors of war, causing the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

The mayor of Lesbos is appealing for "immediate measures" to help alleviate the urgent migrant crisis on his island, which is the entry point for about half of the hundreds of thousands who have arrived in Greece so far this year. (Read More) (Includes Video)