#BREAKING France says fifth suspect arrested after Channel migrant boat tragedy
#UPDATE A fifth suspect is arrested in connection with migrant boat that sank in the English Channel, killing at least 27 people, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says
17 men, seven women, three minors died when the boat sank
#UPDATE Britain and France were on Thursday looking at new measures to limit migration across the Channel and break people-smuggling networks after at least 27 migrants trying to reach England drowned off the northern French coast u.afp.com/wwmV
#BREAKING UK urges 'coordinated' international response after migrant tragedy
#UPDATE Britain has demanded a "coordinated international effort" across Europe to deter people-smuggling after at least 27 migrants drowned off France as they tried to reach England
#UPDATE The bodies were barely out of the water after the most deadly day ever for migrants crossing the English Channel before accusations began to fly over who was to blame for the tragedy u.afp.com/wwsr
Satellite image and map of the Channel between Britain and France, locating the area where a boat with migrants on board sank on November 24
"We were scared because we didn't know what would happen with us"
Ali sat shivering and exhausted on a pebble beach on England's south coast but thankful for a "new life" after he and 30 other migrants were rescued in the Channel u.afp.com/wwnb
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#BREAKING EU to propose banning flights from southern Africa over Covid variant: von der Leyen
#BREAKING Germany to ban most travel from S.Africa over new Covid variant: minister
#UPDATE EU will propose ban on travel from southern Africa after discovery of new Covid-19 variant scientists fear could torpedo efforts to beat pandemic, EU chief says, as German acting Health Minister says Germany will ban most travel from South Africa
#BREAKING French minister says cancels meeting with UK counterpart after Johnson migrant letter to Macron
#UPDATE French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tells UK counterpart Priti Patel he is scrapping planned weekend talks with her, in protest at a letter made public by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the migrant crisis
#BREAKING UK urges France to 'reconsider' migrant meeting snub
#BREAKING French fishermen to blockade Channel Tunnel, ferries
#BREAKING UK 'disappointed' by French fishermen's blockade threat: govt
#UPDATE Britain's government says it is "disappointed" by threats from French fishermen to blockade the Channel Tunnel in a dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights
#BREAKING Thousands protest in Sudan against military takeover: witnesses
#UPDATE Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied Thursday against last month's military power grab, rejecting an agreement struck between the top general that saw the prime minister reinstated, witnesses said
#UPDATE Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied Thursday against last month's military power grab, rejecting an agreement struck between the top general that saw the prime minister reinstated, witnesses said
#BREAKING South Africa detects new Covid-19 variant: scientists
#UPDATE Scientists in South Africa say they have detected a new #COVID19 variant with multiple mutations, in an announcement that came after a recent rise in infection numbers
#UPDATE Scientists in South Africa say they have detected a new #COVID19 variant with multiple mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers u.afp.com/wwst
VIDEO: Plumes of thick black smoke billow high as rioters torch buildings in the Solomon Islands' capital of Honiara Thursday, targeting the city's Chinatown district in a second day of anti-government protests. of fire and smoke rising
A fact file on the Solomon Islands after two days of anti-government protests
#UPDATE Australia has rushed peacekeepers to the Solomon Islands, hoping to quell riots that threatened to topple the Pacific nation's government and left its capital ablaze u.afp.com/wwWa