OVER THE BORDER  Some refugee people cross through a hole in a barbed-wire fence an they run into the forest at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, on September 10. Hungary’s border with Serbia has become a major crossing point into the European Union, with more than 160,000 entering Hungary so far this year. AFP PHOTO
OVER THE BORDER
Some refugee people cross through a hole in a barbed-wire fence an they run into the forest at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, on September 10. Hungary’s border with Serbia has become a major crossing point into the European Union, with more than 160,000 entering Hungary so far this year. AFP PHOTO

STRASBOURG, France: The EU unveiled plans Wednesday to take 160,000 refugees from overstretched border states, as the United States said it would accept more Syrians to ease the pressure from the worst migration crisis since World War II.

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