Work scheme gives refugees in Britain a fresh start
Eritrean asylum seeker Hanna Araya sells freshly baked bread during the lunchtime rush at a London market -- as she waits to see if she can remain in the UK.
Eritrean asylum seeker Hanna Araya sells freshly baked bread during the lunchtime rush at a London market -- as she waits to see if she can remain in the UK.
As the noose tightens around Kyiv, with the massive arrival of Russian forces, civilians continue to flee the Ukrainian capital. Their trip is complicated by the fighting and they are slowed down by many roadblocks. FRANCE 24’s Rob Parsons, Clovis Casali and Abdullah Malkawi report from the ground.
French authorities said Tuesday they had formally identified 26 out of 27 migrants who drowned last month in a Channel boat accident, with most of them Kurds from Iraq.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex told his British counterpart Boris Johnson that the UK held "a large part of the solution" to the Channel migrant crisis and rejected the idea of joint border patrols, according to letter seen by AFP on Thursday.
British and French officials traded blame on Wednesday after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated as they made a perilous crossing of the English Channel.
Belarus authorities on Thursday cleared the main camps where migrants had huddled at the border with Poland, in a change of tack that could help calm a crisis that has spiralled in recent weeks into a major East-West confrontation.
Sports equipment retailer Decathlon said Tuesday it would no longer sell canoes in the north of France to prevent migrants from attempting to use them to cross to England.
France told Britain on Monday to stop "giving lessons" on migrants in an increasingly acrimonious row between London and Paris over the numbers crossing the Channel.
A group of about 50 migrants broke through defences on the border with Belarus and entered Poland near the village of Starzyna, police said on Sunday, as the situation on the frontier becomes increasingly tense.
Mallorca police arrested 12 passengers and were seeking 12 more Saturday who fled a plane during an emergency landing in an "unprecedented" incident possibly linked to illegal immigration, officials said.
The EU pledged one billion euros in aid for Afghanistan on Tuesday "to avert a major humanitarian and socio-economic collapse," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. The Afghan people "should not pay the price of the Taliban's actions," she added.
FRANCE 24's continuing coverage of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan brings you a special edition this Friday dedicated to the plight of women and girls, "Afghanistan: Women's voices". In this exclusive report from Kabul, FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris-Trent and Cyril Payen talk to Afghan women who detail their experiences of living under Taliban rule and describe how deeply they now fear for the future.