G7, Gulf States Pledge $1.8 Billion for Migrant Crisis

The world's seven leading industrialized countries, along with Gulf states, pledged to contribute $1.8 billion to United Nations aid agencies to help with the world's worst migrant crisis since World War II. The announcement came Tuesday after a G7 meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Also attending the meeting were Gulf state leaders and those of some of the European nations dealing with the influx of displaced people. Germany's foreign...

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