LONDON, Aug 9 — Britain's armed forces have been asked to help deal with boats carrying migrants across the Channel from France, the Defence Ministry said yesterday after a spate of arrivals on the southern English coast. Taking advantage of a spell of hot weather and calm sea conditions,...
Sunday, 09 Aug 2020 09:34 AM MYT
Taking advantage of a spell of hot weather and calm sea conditions, hundreds of people including children and pregnant women have made the dangerous 33-km crossing in recent days, many in overloaded rubber dinghies and other small vessels. A junior Home Office minister in charge of immigration compliance, Chris Philp, called the rise in arrivals “shameful” and sought to put pressure on France ahead of a meeting with his French counterpart in Paris next week.
newspaper reported that France will ask Britain to pay £30 million to police the English Channel and that the UK has not yet made a decision on whether it should accept that demand.Uncontrolled arrivals of asylum seekers and migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia have long been a source of tension between European countries struggling to find an effective joint response.
Home Secretary Priti Patel, an enthusiastic Brexiteer, made the link in a tweet on Friday about the Channel crossings: “I know that when the British people say they want to take back control of our borders, this is exactly what they mean.”
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
French rescues 33 migrants heading for EnglandUK minister says the volume of migrants crossing the Channel ‘appalling and unacceptably high’. FMTNews
Read more »
UK-Japan make headway but fail to agree trade deal | Malay MailLONDON, Aug 8 — Britain and Japan yesterday reached agreement on “major elements” of a post-Brexit trade deal but failed to wrap up negotiations as foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi ended his three-day trip to London. The two parties reached agreement in areas such as digital, data and...
Read more »
UK says progress made on Brexit; EU trade deal can be done | Malay MailLONDON, Aug 7 — Britain’s top minister overseeing Brexit talks said today that progress had been made with the European Union so he believed the two sides would clinch a free trade agreement. The United Kingdom left the EU on January 31 but the main terms of its membership remain in place...
Read more »
English lower-league clubs vote for salary cap | Malay MailLONDON, Aug 7 — Clubs in League One and Two have voted in favour of squad salary caps, the English Football League announced on Friday. The cap will be set at £2.5 million (RM13.6 million) in League One, the third tier, and £1.5 million in League Two and has been introduced with immediate...
Read more »
Day says disciplined routine has helped him keep back issues at bay | Malay MailSAN FRANCISCO, Aug 8 ― Former world number one Jason Day said his chronic back problems left him struggling to walk around a golf course when the sport returned in mid-June after the Covid-19 break, but he is now in a better place physically. The 32-year-old Australian carded a second-round 69 at...
Read more »
Alpaca therapy helps convicts with mental illness | Malay MailMAINKOFEN, Aug 9 — Offenders with mental health conditions at a southern German hospital can pitch in with looking after a small herd of alpacas as part of their therapy. Staff at the Mainkofen psychiatric hospital in Bavaria say the aim is for the generally calm animals to help patients develop...
Read more »