Hungary Closes Train Station, Stops Stream of Migrants

Hungarian authorities have shut down Budapest's main train station, stranding hundreds of migrants, mostly from conflict-ridden areas of the Middle East, who are trying to travel on to Austria and Germany. An announcement over the loudspeakers at the Eastern Railway station on Tuesday declared that no trains would leave or arrive until further notice and demanded all passengers immediately vacate the area. Hundreds of police escorted the migrants out of the station and blocked...

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