AUSTRIA BRACES FOR REFUGEE ARRIVALS  Volunteers give clothes to refugees and migrants who wait to cross the Slovenian-Austrian border from the Slovenian city of Sentilj, on November 3. Austria’s government moved on November 3 to tighten asylum rules in the EU country. Austria has seen some 400,000 migrants enter the country since September, most of whom travel onwards to Germany or Scandinavia. AFP PHOTO
AUSTRIA BRACES FOR REFUGEE ARRIVALS
Volunteers give clothes to refugees and migrants who wait to cross the Slovenian-Austrian border from the Slovenian city of Sentilj, on November 3. Austria’s government moved on November 3 to tighten asylum rules in the EU country. Austria has seen some 400,000 migrants enter the country since September, most of whom travel onwards to Germany or Scandinavia. AFP PHOTO

VIENNA: Austria sought to tighten asylum rules in the face of a record influx of migrants, hours before the first refugees are set to be relocated from Greece Wednesday under a faltering EU plan to ease the burden on southern countries.

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