KYIV—Polish authorities accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation on Monday and said they had mobilized additional soldiers as footage on social media showed hundreds of migrants walking toward the Polish border. In one video, shared by the Belarusian blogging service NEXTA, migrants carrying rucksacks and wearing winter clothing were seen walking on…
Poland Fears ‘Major Incident’ as Migrants From Belarus Head for Border
Twelve Arrested After Fleeing Emergency Plane Landing in Mallorca
MADRID—Police in Spain arrested 12 people and were looking for 12 more after a group of passengers fled a plane onto the runway at Palma de Mallorca airport on Friday night, causing the closure of the airport for several hours. The Air Arabia Maroc flight from Casablanca to Istanbul made an emergency landing at Palma…
Poland Says Belarus Staged Armed Intrusion at Border, Summons Envoy
WARSAW—Poland accused Belarus on Wednesday of staging an armed cross-border intrusion and said it had summoned the Belarusian charge d’affaires to protest over what it said was “a deliberate escalation” of the migrant crisis at the frontier. Belarus rejected the allegation as unfounded and intended to sully its image. Minsk also denies Polish and European…
Over 20,000 Migrants Have Crossed English Channel Into UK This Year
More than 20,000 people have crossed the English Channel illegally aboard small boats into the UK since the start of the year, more than double the total for the whole of 2020, the latest figures show. Despite government promises to stem the flow of small boats, which are often overloaded semi-rigid inflatables, the numbers this…
Austrian Police Find 2 Dead Men in Minibus Full of Migrants
BERLIN—Austrian media reported Tuesday that the bodies of two men were found in a minibus carrying dozens of migrants near the border with Hungary. Public broadcaster ORF reported that authorities stopped the vehicle and found 28 people crammed inside, two of them dead. Police were searching the area around Siegendorf, a village 50 kilometers (30…
Car Carrying Illegal Immigrants Crashes in Greece; 1 Dead, 9 Injured
THESSALONIKI, Greece—A vehicle carrying 10 illegal immigrants hoping to head from Greece north into the Balkans crashed in northern Greece overnight, leaving one person dead and nine injured, including one seriously, police said Tuesday. Police said Tuesday that the seven-seater car had been heading out of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki toward the border…
Train Hits, Kills 3 People Thought to Be Sleeping Migrants
PARIS—A train hit and killed three people and seriously injured another person in southwestern France on Tuesday morning. A local mayor said the victims were thought to be migrants who were resting on the tracks. The train was on a line that links the seaside resort town of Hendaye, on France’s border with Spain, and…
Mexico Finds 652 Migrants in Truck Trailers Near Border
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico—Mexican authorities have discovered 652 Central American migrants in six trailers near the United States border. The trucks stopped at a military checkpoint Thursday night on a highway between Ciudad Victoria and Monterrey in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The state public safety agency said Friday that four suspects were arrested. Among the…
Newborn Girl Rescued in the UK After 9 Hours at Sea
A newborn baby was rescued by emergency services after traveling nine hours across the Channel to England on Saturday, arriving in a dinghy with a group of migrants, a British broadcaster reported. A police officer wrapped the infant in a blanket after she was handed over by an RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) crew member,…
Mexico Sends 70 Haitian Migrants Back Home by Plane
MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s government sent 70 Haitian migrants back to Haiti on Wednesday in what it described as a “voluntary return” flight, days after the United States cleared thousands of Haitian illegal immigrants from a camp at the Mexican border in Del Rio, Texas. Mexico’s interior and foreign ministries said in a joint statement that the…
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