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The French coastguard has rescued 68 migrants from a small boat off the Calais coast which was suffering engine failure, as another 183 people reach the UK by crossing the English Channel. The ...
French rescue services picked up a total of about 180 migrants in four separate operations, the prefecture said. "The sea was quiet today, there was an unusually large number of crossing attempts ...
More than 31,000 migrants have made the perilous Channel crossing so far this year, more than in all of 2023, though fewer than in 2022. At least 56 people have perished in the attempts this year, according to French officials, making 2024 the deadliest since the crossings began surging in 2018.
French magistrates on Thursday filed preliminary charges against five French maritime rescue personnel in a probe of the deadly sinking of a flimsy migrant craft in the English Channel in 2021 ...
International relations. Israel and the United Nations. Israel withdraws from the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the UN body of "obsessively demonizing" and discriminating against the country. Argentina announces that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization citing "deep differences" with the organization's leaders.
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[91] [92] French gendarmes based in Kourou used tear gas to disperse a crowd that set a bus on fire and attacked a supermarket in the Soula district of Macouria commune. [92] Prefect of French Guiana Thierry Queffelec condemned the violence and announced the early shut down of Cayenne's public transportation system on 30 June, as well as a ...
WIMEREUX, France/DOVER, England (Reuters) -Five migrants, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat on Tuesday, hours ...