European leaders are to discuss measures to ease the region's migration crisis, with Turkey the focus of their efforts in Brussels.

 The EU is beginning a new operation in the southern Mediterranean to intercept boats smuggling migrants.

 European Union leaders have pledged another €1bn to help UN agencies support Syrian refugees in the Middle East, as part of renewed efforts to tackle the EU's migrant crisis.

 European Union ministers are to meet to try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.

 Thousands more migrants entered Austria over the weekend as European leaders are set to push for a unified response to the crisis.

 Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants.

 Thousands of refugees could be left in "legal limbo" as European countries adopt different border rules to deal with the record influx of migrants, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned.

 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is due to announce plans to tackle Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War Two.

 Germany's coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx.

 A tense stand-off between police and migrants on a train in Hungary is continuing into a second day.

 Hundreds of migrants have arrived by rail in the Austrian capital Vienna after being held for several hours at the Hungarian border.

 The European Union has called emergency talks on tackling the bloc's escalating migration crisis.

 Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying about 500 migrants sank off Libya, officials say.

 Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway.

 Asian countries have agreed to work together to try to stem the region's migrant crisis, as Myanmar brought to shore another boat full of migrants.