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Croatia Admits Over 5,000 Migrants

Croatia says some 5,600 migrants have entered the country since Hungary sealed its border with Serbia, as the U.N. denounces Hungary's treatment of asylum seekers as "unacceptabe." Police released the figure Thursday, after about 24 hours of people streaming in on its eastern border, making Croatia the new way station for the flood of people striving to escape violence in war-torn nations such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic is...

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