MARK ALMOND: Crowds of migrants at Greek border is Turkish despot’s cynical ploy to detonate chaos

The threat will have chilled Europe’s leaders to the bone. Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that his country would no longer enforce the deal struck with the EU in 2016 to prevent millions of Syrian and other refugees who have poured into his country from leaving for Western shores. ‘The doors are now … Read more

EU on ‘high alert’ as more than 30,000 migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece and Bulgaria

The EU is on ‘high alert’ after more than 30,000 migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece and Bulgaria pelted guards with stones and tried to cut through the wire fences. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 18,000 migrants have already crossed into Europe, with the number expected to reach 25,000 to 30,000 in the coming … Read more

Tribal leader: Work to build border wall hurts sacred land

Native American leader fights back tears as he describes the pain of watching sacred land being blown up to make way for Donald Trump’s Mexico-US border wall Native American leader spoke of pain at sacred land being destroyed for the wall Construction crews this month began blasting and bulldozing through hills  Environmental groups are also … Read more

Seven nations including Turkey and Pakistan ban people crossing the border from Iran

Seven countries have imposed bans on people entering from Iran after the country announced that eight people had died from the new Covid-19 coronavirus and 43 have been infected.  Iraq has barred Iranians from entering the country altogether, Pakistan has suspended almost all traffic across the border with Iran and Turkey has temporarily closed its … Read more

Border protection officer ‘kills his wife and two sons before taking his own life’

A US Customs and Border Protection agent killed his wife and two school-aged sons, before taking his own life at the family’s Florida home, authorities said Thursday night. Orange County Sheriff John Mina on Friday identified the deceased as CBP officer Ezequiel Almodovar, 39, his wife Marielis Soto, 38, and their sons, 16-year-old Ezequiel ‘Zeke’ Almodovar and 12-year-old … Read more

Experts train border collie to learn the name of 90 different toys and fetch them on request 

Whisky — a six-year-old border collie — has learned the names of 90 different toys on her own and can fetch them on request, researchers have found. The clever canine has learned to differentiate between balls, Frisbees, rings, or ropes — and can even categorise new toys into these groups.  When the researchers first met … Read more

Boris’s border blueprint: Immigration revolution will end cheap foreign labour

Migrants from the EU will have to speak English and have a job offer under sweeping reforms to end Britain’s reliance on cheap European labour. The measures are part of the biggest shake-up to border rules since this country joined the Common Market in 1973. Low-skilled immigration will be made virtually impossible under a points-based … Read more

Boris’s border blueprint: Immigration revolution will end cheap foreign labour

Migrants from the EU will have to speak English and have a job offer under sweeping reforms to end Britain’s reliance on cheap European labour. The measures are part of the biggest shake-up to border rules since this country joined the Common Market in 1973. Low-skilled immigration will be made virtually impossible under a points-based … Read more

Refugee crisis: German govt argues over proposed border zones

By: AP | Warsaw | Published: October 14, 2015 6:26:49 pm Syrian refugees play in the snow at the refugee home in the former Rehberg Hospital in the Harz mountains in St. Andreasberg, Germany, Oct. 14, 2015. (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP) Germany’s governing coalition is arguing over whether to set up “transit zones” on the … Read more

Japan tightens border after Carlos Ghosn fled the country in music case

Japan tightens border controls after former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn escaped the country while on bail By A Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:01 GMT, 5 January 2020 | Updated: 08:02 GMT, 6 January 2020 Japan said yesterday said it would tighten immigration measures after former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled to Lebanon while on bail. … Read more