Migrant crossings by boat to England have risen to record highs this year

According to the French authorities, 31,500 people attempted to leave for Britain since the start of the year

The deceased is 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen

President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as "inexcusable" the crimes committed on October 17, 1961.

Even though it lasted just a few hours, the impact of the shutdown ran deep.

The trial will last until May 2022, with 145 days for hearings involving about 330 lawyers, 300 victims and former president Francois Hollande

The monarch recently visited his wife in South Africa with their two children and posed for several family pictures.

It is not clear whether another resolution proposing a "safe zone" will be circulated later on.

After a 20-year war, the foes were within clear sight of each other, separated by just 30 metres.

Gerard Pique reportedly acquired the rights to the French League's broadcast in Spain

Some other countries, including Germany and France, have also been able to pick up their nationals and Afghans qualified to travel to those countries.

Critics say the US reputation as a global power has been badly tarnished by the Taliban's victory,

Many villages had only been saved because young people had ignored evacuation orders and stayed on to keep the fires away from their homes, he added.

France recorded almost 23,000 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, twice as many as last week, as the Delta variant caused a surge.

It may be now or never when it comes to Mbappe's move to Real Madrid

But the signs are that this will be a one-off, with Germany to host the Euro in 2024 for the first time since West Germany in 1988.

The legend has resurfaced amid reports of marital troubles between Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene.

Ronaldo will be leading Portugal in their European Championship title defence.

With the world still crawling out from under the wreckage of Covid-19, Biden has cast his diplomatic marathon as a return to badly needed US leadership.

In the last multi-candidate poll in 2014, Assad won 88 percent of the vote.

The Israel-Gaza conflict was sparked after clashes broke out at east Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound -- one of Islam's holiest sites.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will join Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez and more in Global Citizen's VAX LIVE concert in May.

Many countries are shutting their borders to travellers from India.

Indian health ministry data showed nearly 315,000 new infections in the past 24 hours -- the most any country has recorded in a day since the pandemic began.

Several EU officials and diplomats warned on Wednesday that, while they back a verifiable vaccination record, it is too early to look at using "vaccine passports" to permit easier travel.

Air traffic was down two-thirds globally in 2020, according to the International Air Transport Association, and it does not expect a return to 2019 levels before 2024.

A WHO team finally started work on its investigation in recent days after months of delays, with the experts visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Wednesday.

France went into lockdown twice in 2020, the first time between March and May and then October to December.

On December 24, Britain and the European Union agreed a post-Brexit deal that allayed the threat of disruption to business on January 1, when measures extending free trade are set to end.

The emergency US package is part of a larger spending bill that, with Trump's signature, will avoid a government shutdown on Tuesday.