The Latest: Czechs send more police to Austria border
The Czech prime minister says that his country has deployed more police to the Austrian-Czech border in response to Germany's decision to renew border controls along its border with Austria in a bid to limit an influx of refugees.
The U.N. refugee agency says border control measures announced by European countries underline the urgency of "a comprehensive European response" to the migrant crisis.
Germany's interior minister says his country is introducing temporary border checks on the Austrian frontier in a bid to limit the influx of refugees.
[...] the influx has continued and German officials have said over the weekend that the speed of the arrivals was straining the country's ability to provide accommodation.
A small Hungarian party says that in special circumstances tracking devices should be placed on asylum seekers to monitor their whereabouts.
Politics Can Be Different, an opposition party known mainly for embracing environmental and anti-corruption themes, said Sunday the tracking devices would be used in emergency situations to keep tabs on asylum seekers whose claims haven't been decided within 30 days.
Other measures meant to handle the migrant crisis proposed by Politics Can Be Different include extra funding to hire 3,000 police officers, building more refugee camps and well as providing information to migrants in their native language.
Greek authorities say 28 people have drowned, half of them children, after a wooden smuggling boat capsized in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
Police in Upper Austria province say the migrants were found Sunday morning at a rest stop on the A8 highway at Aistersheim by officers looking for traffickers' vehicles.
Greek authorities say 10 migrants have drowned at sea off a Greek island when their boat capsized — and there are fears the toll may rise as coast guard officers search the ship.
Germany's vice chancellor is calling for an aid package to help feed, house