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Food, shelter, beatings: Border city divided over migrants

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Residents of Spain's multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Spain and Morocco shakes up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Food, shelter, beatings: Border city divided over migrants

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Residents of Spain's multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Spain and Morocco shakes up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Food, shelter, beatings: Border city divided over migrants

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Residents of Spain's multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Spain and Morocco shakes up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Food, shelter, beatings: Border city divided over migrants

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Residents of Spain's multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Spain and Morocco shakes up.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 8,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 7,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday as thousands of migrants jumped fences or swam onto European soil for the second day in a row after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Spain, Morocco square off after 6,000 migrants arrive by sea

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday as thousands of migrants jumped fences or swam onto European soil for the second day in a row after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Deaths at sea highlight failings in Europe migration policy

CAIRO (AP) — As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants in distress frantically. In the series of calls to the Alarm Phone hotline, passengers explained that the dinghy had run out …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Street parties celebrate end of Spain's state of emergency

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Impromptu street celebrations erupted across Spain as the clock struck midnight on Saturday, when a six-month-long national state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus ended and many nighttime curfews were lifted.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Deaths at sea highlight failings in Europe migration policy

CAIRO (AP) — As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants in distress frantically. In the series of calls to the Alarm Phone hotline, passengers explained that the dinghy had run out …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

AP PHOTOS: Migrants evade Libyan coast guard to reach Europe

ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS (AP) — The February storm is unforgiving, violently shaking the humanitarian rescuers’ vessel as they try to revive a faulty engine and save African migrants drifting in the Mediterranean Sea after fleeing Libya on unseaworthy boats.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

AP PHOTOS: Migrants evade Libyan coast guard to reach Europe

ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS (AP) — The February storm is unforgiving, violently shaking the humanitarian rescuers’ vessel as they try to revive a faulty engine and save African migrants drifting in the Mediterranean Sea after fleeing Libya on unseaworthy boats.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Europe-bound migrants found amid broken glass, toxic ash

MADRID (AP) — Something seemed wrong to the guard inspecting sealed bags of toxic ash in the port of Melilla, one of Spain’s two small territories in North Africa. So he pulled a knife, cut the bag open and found a motionless leg, confirming his suspicion that a person was …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

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