Philippines cuts floating barrier in South China Sea | AJ #shorts

The Philippines’ coastguard says it has cut a floating barrier set up by China in the South China Sea, in a disputed area where tensions have risen in recent...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #China #Philippines #SouthChinaSea #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #area #barrier #coastguard #cut #disputed #floating #floatingbarrier #latestnews #newsheadlines #risen #tensions
Philippines cuts floating barrier in South China Sea | AJ #shorts

Survivors of the migrant shipwreck say the Greek Coast Guard immediately seized their phones, presumably to destroy video evidence that the agency did nothing as hundreds drowned.

Source: https://nitter.it/_maxgranger/status/1673740910587441152

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France, UK authorities face manslaughter lawsuit over deaths of migrants in Channel boat tragedy

The Paris prosecutor’s office said it has received a manslaughter lawsuit for failure to help in the tragic capsizing last month of a boat in the English Channel that cost the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach Britain.

The manslaughter lawsuit, filed Friday by the French humanitarian organization Utopia 56, accuses the maritime prefect of the Channel and North Sea, the Regional Operational Centre for Surveillance and Rescue of Gris-Nez in the Pas-de-Calais and the British Coast Guard of not doing enough to prevent the deaths.

The only two survivors of the disaster told Kurdish media that the migrants on the boat made distress calls that were ignored as their canoe deflated and their engine broke. They claim the British said the boat was in French waters, and the French the reverse. These accounts were confirmed by victim family members, who were in telephone contact during the attempted crossing.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211220-france-uk-authorities-face-manslaughter-lawsuit-over-deaths-of-27-migrants-in-channel-capsizing

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