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An ex-Auschwitz guard, who is allegedly involved in the gassing of more than hundreds of thousands of Jews in Western Germany, was sent to trial for 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. Several Auschwitz survivors are set to testify against the former guard.

Sweden will impose temporary border controls from Thursday in response to a record influx of refugees, a turnaround for a country known for its open-door policies that also threw down the gauntlet to other EU nations hit by a migration crisis.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he wanted to get a group of EU leaders to agree on short-term measures to tackle the migrant crisis in the western Balkans at a summit on Sunday.