German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government pledged late Sunday to spend $6.6 billion to care for an unprecedented wave of people fleeing violence in Syria, Iraq, and other hot spots.
Thousands of people crossed into Germany and Austria over the weekend after spending days stuck in Hungary due to questions about the European Union's migration policy. The EU said Monday that Germany would accept 40,000 refugees and France 30,000 under a quota system to relocate 160,000 asylum-seekers now in Italy, Greece, and Hungary.
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