Tag: migrants

1 Body Found in Coast Guard Search for 38 Lost Off Florida

MIAMI—The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday that its crews recovered one body and continue to search for 38 other people in the ocean off Florida days after their boat left the Bahamas in a suspected human smuggling attempt. Capt. Jo-Ann F. Burdian told a news conference that finding the other migrants alive is their highest…


Coast Guard: 1 Body Recovered, 38 Still Missing Off Florida

MIAMI—The U.S. Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as aircraft and ships searched for 38 people missing in the Atlantic off Florida, four days after the capsizing of a suspected smuggling boat killed at least one and left one known survivor. Capt. Jo-Ann F. Burdian told a news conference that finding the other migrants…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Jan. 24)

The Pentagon is putting 8,000 troops on high alert for deployment as the State Department orders the families of embassy staff to leave Ukraine, influential-but-censored health experts meet in Washington, D.C., to discuss some of the biggest pandemic issues, and a new report says the United Nations is providing cash debit cards to migrants heading to the United…


Self-Driving Trucks and Small Grocers Can Protect Food Supply Chain From Future Shocks: Experts

Experts are saying that the food supply chain issues were caused by a “perfect storm” of labour issues after COVID-19 restrictions prevented many people from entering the country while at the same time causing an exodus of migrants. Andrew Timming, a professor of human resource management at RMIT University, told The Epoch Times that Australian…


Italy Gives Safe Port to 558 Migrants Rescued at Sea

CATANIA, Italy—Italy on Tuesday allowed a charity boat carrying hundreds of migrants rescued at sea to dock in the Sicilian port of Augusta, with another vessel waiting offshore for permission to bring 440 more to land. The Geo Barents ship, run by charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), took onboard 558 people, mainly Africans, in eight…


Refugees Risk Perilous Path to Escape Socialist Venezuela Into Neighboring Guyana

Tens of Thousands of Venezuelan immigrants are flooding into neighboring South American country Guyana in a bid to escape destitution and instability of socialism. Escape routes away from coast guards and Venezuela’s armed gangs, also known as syndicates, take the refugees along perilous routes, risking starvation and sickness in search of a new and unprepared-for…


7 Migrants Killed, 3 Injured in Car Accident in Hungary

BUDAPEST, Hungary—Seven migrants were killed and three others injured when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a house while fleeing a police stop, Hungarian police said. The accident occurred just before midnight Monday near the center of Morahalom, a town of around 6,000 people less than five miles from Hungary’s border with Serbia….


North Macedonia Finds 41 Migrants in Van, Arrests Driver

SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA—Police in North Macedonia have discovered 41 migrants, including five children, in a routine police check on the country’s main highway and arrested the van’s driver. Police said in a statement Saturday that their patrol stopped the van in front of a toll station late Friday near the central town of Negotino. In…


Kremlin Hopes Belarus Won’t Stop Gas Transit to EU Amid Migrant Crisis

MOSCOW—Russia hopes Belarus will not suspend gas transit to Europe, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to block shipments as part of a crisis over migrants at the border. The EU has accused Belarus of flying in thousands of people from the Middle East and pushing them to cross into…


France Backs Poland Over Belarus but Warns EU Row Not Over

PARIS/WARSAW—France assured Poland on Wednesday of European Union support in its stand-off with Belarus, but reminded Warsaw it needed to resolve a row with the bloc over its values and the rule of law. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met French President Emmanuel Macron as part of a diplomatic effort to rally support for a…