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Refugees sit in the sun at a collection point in Röszke near the Hungarian-Serbian border while waiting to be transported to a registration centre.

Parliament backed temporary emergency rules to relocate an initial total of 40,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to other EU member states over two years in a vote on Wednesday. In the migration debate on Wednesday, most MEPs welcomed the Commission's new proposals outlined by Juncker in his state of the Union speech, stressing that more contributions to solidarity will be needed.

A boy stands outside a building damaged during fighting in Aleppo City, Syria.

A health worker, measures the mid-upper-arm of a young boy to assess his nutrition status prior to his admission to the UNICEF-supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

Syrian children play in the streets of Aleppo, home to well over a million internally displaced people, in November 2014.

Five-year-old Nikita, whose father was killed during shelling while returning home from work, stands at his window in a district in the city of Pervomaysk in Donetsk Oblast (December 2014).

Seven months pregnant and weary after the long journey from Iraq, Najibah crossed from Serbia into Hungary with her husband Ali on 7 September 2015. Along the way, the baby went into distress.

Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov.

The Syrian archaeological site of Palmyra.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz opens September plenary session in Strasbourg