Border guard

Germany hosts the world's fourth-largest refugee population and leads the EU in asylum seekers. Will the new German border control measures truly ease migratory pressures, or are they merely political optics?

According to media reports, Berlin ordered the temporary tightening of controls at all borders - including with Schengen members - in a crackdown on illegal migration

Police said shots fired from Turkish side after a patrol blocked migrant smugglers ferrying migrants; border guard out of danger