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Channel smugglers drop prices and cram more people on to boats
In this file photo dated Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, a French gendarme patrols the beach in Ambleteuse near Calais, northern France. Fifteen migrants have been saved Tuesday Oct. 27, 2020, and rescue and search operations are still under way, but at least four migrants, including a 5-year-old and 8-year-old child, have died Tuesday when their boat capsized while they and other migrants tried to cross the English Channel to Britain, French authorities said.
AP / Michel Spingler, FILE
2022-08-07, The Observer
People-smugglers have dropped their prices and are cramming more people than ever before into already overloaded, flimsy boats, the Guardian has learned. This week 696...
Traffic Chaos In Dover
File - Trucks are parked up on the M20, part of Operation Stack in Ashford, Kent, England, Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. Thousands wait to resume their journey across The Channel after the borders with France reopened.
AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
2022-07-23, WorldNews.com
"Since there's no other way to share one's experience of the Dover debacle... The reporting in the UK media, The Guardian included, has been sadly inadequate. As usual...
UK's proposal to send refugees to Turkey slammed by Ankara
British Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Elizabeth Truss held talks with Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv, Ukraine, 17 February 2022
Creative Commons / Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
2022-07-18, The New Arab
The Turkish foreign ministry has slammed informal proposals to deport UK asylum seekers to Turkey. UK foreign minister Liz Truss had told MPs in private this weekend that...
Perkins-McCutcheon connection leads Rams over Chargers 29-222022-08-14
Citizen Tribune: INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Bryce Perkins and Lance McCutcheon solidified their cases to come off the Los Angeles Rams roster bubble Saturday night. Perkins threw a pair of touchdown passes to McCutcheon as the defending Super Bowl champions held off the Los...
L.A. Rams 29, L.A. Chargers 222022-08-14
The Galveston Daily News: L.A. Rams01487—29 L.A. Chargers7708—22 FirstQuarter LAC_Reed 41 pass from Daniel (D.Hopkins kick), 11:09. Drive: 10 plays, 77 yards, 3:51. Key Plays: Reed kick return to L.A. Chargers 23; Daniel 4 pass to Guyton on 3rd-and-4; Daniel 11 pass to Kelley on...
ME Caribou ME Zone Forecast2022-08-14
The Berkshire Eagle: ME Caribou MEZoneForecast for Saturday, August 13, 2022 558 FPUS51 KCAR 140653 ZFPCAR Zone Forecast Product for MaineNational Weather Service Caribou ME 253 AM EDT Sun Aug 14 2022 MEZ001-142045- Northwest Aroostook- Including the cities of Allagash, Clayton...
Rams guard Logan Bruss learns quickly in preseason debut vs. Chargers2022-08-14
San Gabriel Valley Tribune: Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Lance McCutcheon #82 celebrates his touchdown catch with teammates against the Los Angeles Chargers in the first half of a preseason game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The...
Chargers give preview of upgraded defense in exhibition opener vs. Rams2022-08-14
San Gabriel Valley Tribune: Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Chase Daniel #4 completes the pass as he is pulled down by Los Angeles Rams linebacker Daniel Hardy #44 in the first half of a preseason game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Photo by Terry Pierson,...
Perkins-McCutcheon connection leads Rams over Chargers2022-08-14
TSN Canada: INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Third-string quarterback Bryce Perkins threw a pair of touchdown passes to Lance McCutcheon and the Los Angeles Rams held off the Los Angeles Chargers 29-22 Saturday night in a preseason game in which most of the starters for both...
Brexit threatening endangered species as red tape hits zoo breeding programmes2022-08-14
The Observer: Breeding programmes designed to save critically endangered species are being jeopardised by Brexit, with zoos warning they are being prevented from transferring animals such as rhinos and giraffes by red tape created by the UK’s departure from the EU. The...
People-smugglers charging migrants £17,000 to sneak into the UK via the English Channel and North ...2022-08-14
The Daily Mail: Ruthless people-smugglers are sneaking Albanian migrants into the UK on luxury yachts as part of a ‘premium’ trafficking service, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Posing as a migrant, an undercover MoS journalist last week contacted Albanian crime bosses who...
Amses: Flying cowboys2022-08-13
Rutland Herald: Montana is a place where rugged individualism and quirky irony meet face to face, eye each other warily for a sharpened moment or two, and subsequently agree to arm wrestle for shots of Canadian whiskey and local bragging rights. Missoula is in many ways still...
23rd annual Folk Music Concert: The Calais acoustic folk music tradition lives on2022-08-13
Rutland Herald: For 22 years, a most anticipated event, the Folk MusicConcert at the Old West Church in Calais, has brought some of the best folk musicians and singers to this singular venue. This year, the 23rd concert, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, features DominiqueDodge, a...
Inside the Albanian town that loses so many illegal boat migrants to the UK its ...2022-08-12
The Daily Mail: He’s 6 ft tall and smoking, but the youngster standing with a posse of friends on a street corner of Has, a tiny town tucked away in the mountains of northern Albania, is only 13 years old. When he pulls out his cigarette packet to offer me one, his...
Bringing your pet to the UK from Ukraine (APHA - UK Animal Health and Plant Agency)2022-08-12
Public Technologies: ) Guidance Bringing your pet to the UK from UkraineEnglishРусский языкУкраїнська What you must do to bring your pet to the UK from Ukraine if you are seeking refuge. From:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and PlantHealth...
Dozens of migrants arrive in Dover after making early morning Channel crossing - as total ...2022-08-12
The Daily Mail: Dozens of migrants arrived in England this morning after making the dangerous crossing over the English Channel in small boats before being picked up by the BorderForce and landing at Dover at around 7.30am. The group of 39 migrants appears to be comprised of...
Injured Ravens WRs Tylan Wallace, James Proche II could miss time; OLB Tyus Bowser taking ...2022-08-12
Denver Post: The Ravens might have some depth issues at wide receiver. During Baltimore’s 23-10 preseason-opening victory over the Tennessee Titans Thursday night, Tylan Wallace suffered a knee sprain while coach John Harbaugh said James Proche II has a soft tissue...