Tag: Calais (France)

‘Our Boat Was Surrounded by Dead Bodies’: Witnessing a Migrant Tragedy

‘Our Boat Was Surrounded by Dead Bodies’: Witnessing a Migrant Tragedy

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq — The boat packed with migrants was about halfway across the English Channel when one of the passengers…

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France-U.K. Acrimony Impedes Progress on Channel Crossings

France-U.K. Acrimony Impedes Progress on Channel Crossings

“Migration feeds into this sense that Boris Johnson doesn’t understand his blue-collar political base,” said Matthew Goodwin, a professor of…

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Undeterred by Channel’s Perils, Desperate Migrants Still Plan to Cross

Undeterred by Channel’s Perils, Desperate Migrants Still Plan to Cross

CALAIS, France — The lights on the opposite side of the English Channel were visible on Thursday, emboldening Emanuel Malbah,…

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