Children & Teens
Migrant crossings resume as 158 people cross English Channel to UK (LINK ONLY)
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Day: September 6, 2021
Immigration
Greece faces criticism a year after migrant camp fires
(AFP) One year after fire ripped through the notorious Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, the authorities say they’ve tackled the critical overcrowding and brought order to the chaos. Critics counter they achieved this through a policy of forcibly […]
Legal
Pretrial hearings for alleged 9/11 plotters set to resume at Guantanamo this week
(CNN) Pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been accused of being the lead plotter behind the September 11 attacks, and four other detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are set to resume on Tuesday. The last in-person hearing […]
Health & Medicine
Manchester Arena inquiry: Ambulance boss defends paramedics decision
(BBC) The decision not to send more specialist paramedics into the Manchester Arena bomb scene has been defended by an ambulance service boss. The public inquiry has heard only three paramedics treated casualties in the City Room where the bomb was detonated. […]
Law Enforcement
Sweden arrests two women linked to IS
(AFP) Swedish police said Monday they had arrested two women linked to the Islamic State group after they flew back from Syria, as media reported that one was being investigated for war crimes. Stockholm police spokesman Ola Osterling said the prosecutor leading […]
News Media
Belgian journalist unknowingly interviewed Salah Abdeslam right after Paris attacks
(Brussels Times) The Belgian Francophone broadcaster RTBF found recordings of an interview with terrorist Salah Abdeslam and two of his accomplices, immediately after the terror attacks in Paris, in its archives. On 14 November 2015, the morning after the terror attacks in […]
Government & Politics
Polish lawmakers uphold state of emergency at Belarus border
(AP) Poland’s parliament voted Monday to uphold the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that was declared last week amid migration pressure. The vote came after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told lawmakers that the country faces a threat from Russia […]