Word: nieuwpoort
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...them from Sangatte. "We don't have any overall numbers yet, but there are more and more refugees every day," says Karen Vinck, a Zeebrugge police official working on the case. "It's 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...
After reading your obituary on Leonid Brezhnev, my first thoughts were that he was not such a bad guy after all. However, the details about his role in the bloody Afghanistan coup brought me back to reality. Danny Van Loo Nieuwpoort, Belgium...
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