(BBC) More than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in three days, the Home Office has confirmed.
On Wednesday, 85 people made the crossing, followed by 222 on Thursday and 174 on Friday.
The French authorities stopped 267 people from making the crossing in nine boats over the same period, a Home Office spokesman said.
More than 15,100 people have reached the UK in small boats this year.
About 8,400 people made the crossing in 2020, four times greater than 2019.
(AFP) French prosecutors on Monday launched a preliminary investigation into a top-flight footballer on suspicion of “glorifying terrorism” after he reposted an allegedly anti-Semitic message on social media relating to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Youcef Atal, an Algerian international who plays for Ligue […]
(Morocco World News) Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne announced today that security services in the European country arrested French-Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen. AFP quoted the Belgian minister confirming the news. “I can confirm to you that he was arrested today by […]
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