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...getting worse." Vinck adds that the increased controls are pushing migrants to take bigger risks. In Nieuwpoort, a small coastal town 40 km from Zeebrugge, dozens of migrants have attempted to cross the Channel in small boats and rubber dinghies over the past few weeks. As coordinated Franco-British action drives migrants and smugglers away from the Calais-Dover route, towns elsewhere along the coast can expect increased traffic. As an icy drizzle blew in off the Channel last week, Calais resident Jean Godts nodded over at the lights burning behind Saint Pierre-Saint Paul's stained-glass windows. "They...
...Hong Kong Film Awards the following year, and the year after that turned down Ang Lee?s offer to star in ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.? By now she?s surely been forgiven for her Cat III antics; last month she starred in the Sino-Franco-American action film ?The Transporter...
...were paid $25,000 each. A senior activist in the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front, Salim also confessed he met with Arafat to clear the distribution of cash, according to Israeli intelligence sources. - By Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Matt Rees/Jerusalem. EUROPE More Fudge Down On The Farm The Franco-German alliance at the heart of the E.U. has some life in it yet. Meeting at an E.U. summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac seemed to clear the way for the E.U.'s enlargement by limiting growth in spending on the Union...
...United States very well,' he told time. 'Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx.' Moreover, Schröeder's defeated opponent, conservative Edmund Stoiber, is close to French President Jacques Chirac, and made little secret of his desire to re-establish the old Franco-German partnership on foreign policy, which would help marginalize U.S. ally Tony Blair in Europe. Not that Schröeder is about to become a Bush booster on Iraq. A 'pre-emptive' war, as one in Iraq would likely be, is unconstitutional in Germany. But, as a British official says...
...attend the young King's wedding amid the Perejil drama. Both nations' foreign ministers adopted the "Who, me?" line. The Western Sahara is perhaps the biggest barrier, and one which brings up the issue of another rock - Gibraltar. Spain walked out of then Spanish Sahara in 1976, soon after Franco died, leaving Morocco and Mauritania to divvy up the country, rich in phosphate deposits and fishing grounds. The Spanish were in pre-democracy turmoil and washed their hands of the Saharawi people, most of whom now live in vast desert refugee camps across the border in Algeria. But, perhaps ashamed...