Tag: United Kingdom
the Channel Tunnel celebrates its thirtieth anniversary
The Channel Tunnel celebrates its thirtieth birthday on Monday May 6, 2024. Fifty kilometers long, it connects France and England on dry land. A look back at an infrastructure that…
Sadiq Khan re-elected mayor of London, big victory for Labor
Labor Sadiq Khan became the first elected official to win London mayorship for a third term on Saturday May 4. But beyond this result, these local elections mark a large…
More than 700 migrants arrived in the UK in a single day on Wednesday
More than 700 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom on Wednesday May 2. This is a record since the start of the year, despite the British government’s desire to stop…
Sadiq Khan seeking third term
Sadiq Khan’s police strategy criticized As mayor, Sadiq Khan is at the helm of an annual budget of 20 billion euros, and is responsible for cultural policy, transport and, in…
200 asylum seekers deported from Dublin city center
Dismantling of a camp in the city center of Dublin: 200 asylum seekers, who had previously been sleeping in tents for several months, were transferred this Wednesday morning aboard buses…
Conservative MP Dan Poulter defects to Labor
A British MP and former member of the Conservative government has just defected while the upcoming legislative elections promise to be complicated for the Conservative government, already largely left behind…
pro-Palestinian demonstrators still motivated after seven months of conflict in Gaza
In London, pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue as on Saturday April 27. Weekly at the start of the conflict, they now take place every three weeks. And the mobilizations on American and…
at least five dead during an attempt to cross the Channel
At least five migrants, including a child, died after “a crowd movement” at sea during an attempt to cross the Channel on the night of Monday to Tuesday from a…
British Parliament adopts bill on expulsion of migrants in Rwanda
The British Parliament approved on the night of Monday to Tuesday the controversial bill for the expulsion to Rwanda of asylum seekers who entered the United Kingdom illegally. 2 mins…
In the United Kingdom, exiled Iranian journalists increasingly threatened
Three weeks after an Iranian journalist was stabbed in London, Reporters Without Borders published a report on Wednesday April 17 on the situation of other Persian-speaking reporters in the United…