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‘Treated like animals’: Julián Castro condemns Biden over humanitarian crisis at US border
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Julián Castro, the former US presidential candidate, has become the latest prominent Democrat to attack Joe Biden for his handling of the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, lamenting his use of a contested Tr...
Four migrants stuck on Poland-Belarus border die of hypothermia and exhaustion
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Four people stranded on the border between Poland and Belarus have died in recent days, officials have said, amid continuing allegations that Minsk is abandoning migrants at its frontier in an attempt to put pressure ...
US begins deportation flights for Haitians camped at Texas border town
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The US has begun flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing from Mexico, in the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions ...
Haitian migrants intend to remain at Texas border despite plan to expel them
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Haitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and hopelessness in their home country said they would not be deterred by US plans to swiftly send them back, as thousands remained encamped on the Texas border. On ...
US to fly Haitian migrants back after thousands gather at Texas border
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The Biden administration on Saturday was working on plans to send many of the thousands of Haitian immigrants who have gathered in a Texas border city back to their homeland, a swift response to the huge influx of peo...
How thousands of Haitian migrants ended up at the Texas border
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Every night Guy would fall asleep to the sound of gunfire: warring gangs in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, were fighting pitched battles in the city centre. By day, the country was roiled by bloody protests agai...
Texas: thousands of migrants gather under border bridge in makeshift camp
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Thousands of migrants and refugees have gathered under the bridge that connects Del Rio in Texas and Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña, creating a makeshift camp with few basic services in intense heat in the latest border emerge...
Britain to delay some post-Brexit border controls due to Covid crisis
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Brexit controls on food and animal products that were due to come into effect in January are being postponed until July 2022 because of the potential impact on businesses, the British government has announced. It is a...
Delaying Brexit border checks on food won’t prevent shortages, UK firms warn
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British business leaders have urged the government not to delay the next phase of Brexit border checks on imports from the EU on food products, amid mounting pressure on supermarket supplies in the run-up to Christmas...
Wildfire review – savagely powerful Irish border drama
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This story of two sisters, torn apart by family tragedy but drawn together by a bond deeper than anything the local gossips can understand, is also a tale of blurred boundaries. The line between Lauren (Nora-Jane Noon...
Couple divided by Irish border because of post-Brexit rules
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A South African doctor and her British husband are living on either side of the Irish border because of what one MP called a “borderline unconstitutional” application of post-Brexit immigration rules. Corrinne and Bre...
Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes on Gaza border dies
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A 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot last week by Israeli soldiers during clashes along the border with Gaza has died of his injuries, the territory’s health ministry said on Saturday. Omar Hassan Abu al-Nile was hit la...
Fleeing Afghans should try to get to border, says UK defence secretary
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Afghans who want to flee to Britain may be better off “trying to get to the border” than awaiting RAF evacuation, the defence secretary has said as British troops made last-ditch attempts to airlift at least 1,500 rem...
Greece extends border wall to deter Afghans trying to reach Europe
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Greece said it has completed a 25-mile (40km) wall on its border with Turkey and installed a surveillance system to prevent possible asylum seekers from trying to reach Europe after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanist...
‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: New Zealand welcomes border reopening plans
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New Zealand’s much-awaited, albeit cautious, roadmap for reopening its borders has given businesses and families a taste of hope for the future, though health experts warn that it is dependent on improving the country...
Coronavirus live news: England ends ‘pingdemic’ for vaccinated; New Zealand details plans to reopen border
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End of isolation for England’s fully-jabbed Covid contacts from Monday; New Zealand to let in vaccinated travellers from low-risk countries next year