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BROWNSVILLE, United States, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – At least seven people were killed Sunday in south Texas and several others injured when a car plowed through a group waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant aid center, police said. Law enforcement said they were treating the incident as an accident for now, though a witness told AFP the driver had yelled insults at the group before accelerating. The gray sport utility vehicle “went […]
Doha, Qatar (AFP) World Cup host Qatar is investigating the death of a migrant worker, an official said Thursday, after reports he died at a training base during the ongoing football tournament. The death of a Filipino in his 40s was first reported on Wednesday by The Athletic sports website and later confirmed by the Philippines’ Foreign Ministry. The Athletic said the man fell off a ramp while repairing lights at a resort used […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – France and the UK on Monday signed a new agreement to work together to stop migrants crossing the Channel to England in small boats, a source of huge bilateral tension. Under the agreement, Britain will pay France 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) in 2022-2023 so that Paris can increase by 40 percent the numbers of security forces patrolling its northern beaches, the French interior ministry said. This means some 350 additional members […]
by Bernard BARRON with Sylvie MALIGORNE and Stuart WILLIAMS in Paris CALAIS, France (AFP) — At least 31 migrants trying to reach England from France died on Wednesday when their boat sank off the northern French coast, the deadliest disaster since the Channel became a hub for clandestine crossings. President Emmanuel Macron vowed France would not allow the Channel to become a “cemetery” and called for an emergency meeting of European ministers on the crisis. […]
by Hazel Ward with Daniel Silva in Madrid CEUTA, Spain (AFP) — The seas were calm along the Moroccan-Spanish frontier late Wednesday with no sign of swimmers trying to reach Spain’s north African Ceuta enclave after a record 8,000 arrivals in just one day. Spanish authorities were caught by surprise when large numbers of people began flooding across the frontier on Monday as the Moroccan border forces looked the other way, quickly leaving the tiny […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Around 8,000 migrants have arrived in Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta since Monday, and around half have been sent back to Morocco, the Spanish government said Tuesday. Madrid will send another 50 police officers to the territory, in addition to the 200 already announced, to boost border controls, it added in a statement. “In addition another 150 officers are on alert in case their deployment to Ceuta is needed,” the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US first lady Jill Biden will participate in efforts by her husband’s administration to reunite families split apart by former president Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, the White House said Friday. In line with his campaign promises, President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday “his launch of a task force on reunifying families and children. Something that he is personally committed to, his wife Dr Biden is personally […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico on Wednesday hailed US President Joe Biden’s order to halt construction of Donald Trump’s wall along the US-Mexican border, as well as his other immigration-linked reforms. “Mexico welcomes the end of the construction of the wall, the immigration initiative in favor of DACA and a path to dual citizenship,” Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard wrote on Twitter. He was referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to regularize […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — The father of one of the 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck in Britain said Tuesday he felt sorry for the two men convicted of manslaughter over the deaths. The bodies of the men and women were found inside a sealed container near London in October 2019, after they suffocated in sweltering temperatures. Lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, from Northern Ireland, and Romanian national Gheorghe Nica, 43, were found […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — A fire that broke out on Sunday at a reception centre for asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Samos was under control, police and the fire services said. The fire came after 12,000 people including entire families with elderly and newborns were left homeless earlier this month when fire broke out in the overcrowded and unsanitary Moria camp on Lesbos, another island in the Agean. Two or three containers at the […]
GREECE (AFP) — Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday began an operation to rehouse thousands of homeless migrants at a new site after their camp was destroyed by fire, an AFP journalist said. At around 7am (0400 GMT), officers were waking the migrants in their tents to take them to the temporary camp that was hastily set up after the fire last week. Quietly, with only the sounds of children crying, the […]
GREECE (AFP) — Roughly 800 of the thousands of asylum seekers who fled a fire that destroyed Europe’s biggest migrant camp have been housed at a temporary site on the island of Lesbos, Greece’s migration ministry said. Among them, 21 have tested positive for coronavirus, the ministry said late Monday. Thousands of people had been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze ripped through the overcrowded Moria camp on September 8. The fire forced its 12,000 […]
