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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 15 November 2022

France and UK sign agreement to curb Channel crossings

By THOMAS ADAMSON and Braverman in Paris, contains
JILL LAWLESS proposals to fight crime by
Associated Press harvesting information from
PARIS (AP) — The U.K. and intercepted migrants to
France signed an agree- help tackle smuggling net-
ment Monday that will see works.
more police patrol beach- No specific target for boat
es in northern France in an interceptions was included.
attempt to stop migrants The U.K. receives fewer asy-
from trying to cross the Eng- lum-seekers than many Eu-
lish Channel in small boats ropean nations, including
a regular source of friction Germany, France and Italy,
between the two. but thousands of migrants
As scores of people were from around the world trav-
picked up and brought el to northern France each
ashore Monday by a U.K. year in hopes of crossing
Border Force vessel, the Brit- the channel. Some want
ish government said it had to reach the U.K. because
agreed to pay France 72.2 they have friends or fam-
million euros ($75 million) in ily there, others because
2022-2023 almost 10 million they speak English or be-
euros more than under an cause it’s perceived to be
existing deal in exchange A British Border Force vessel carrying a group of people thought to be migrants rescued after a easy to find work. In recent
for France increasing secu- boat incident in the Channel comes into dock in Dover, England, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. years there’s been a sharp
rity patrols along the coast Associated Press increase in the number
by 40%. of people attempting the
That includes 350 more sion equipment to help of- mean “for the first time, our operations.” journey in dinghies and
gendarmes and police ficers detect unauthorized British officials embedded The agreement, signed other small craft as authori-
guarding beaches in Cal- crossings. in French operations to by French Interior Minister ties clamped down on oth-
ais and Dunkirk, as well as British Prime Minister Rishi strengthen coordination Gerald Darmanin and Brit- er routes such as stowing
more drones and night vi- Sunak said the deal would and the effectiveness of ish Home Secretary Suella away on buses or trucks.q

Mexico president

dismisses massive protest

against reforms

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A day
after tens of thousands of
people protested against
President Andrés Manuel
López Obrador’s propos-
al to overhaul Mexico’s
electoral authority, the
president dismissed them
Monday as people in fa-
vor of privilege, racism and
classism. López Obrador
said Sunday’s demonstra-
tion the biggest against
one of his proposals in his
nearly four years in office
was a kind of “striptease”
revealing the intentions of
Mexico’s conservatives.
He estimated there were
50,000 to 60,000 protesters, Mexican President Andres
an apparent undercount Manuel Lopez Obrador
and well below the 200,000 gestures during his daily,
morning press conference
estimated by the march’s at the National Palace in
organizers. Mexico City, Monday, Nov.
Opposition parties and 14, 2022.
civil society organizations Associated Press
had called on Mexicans to
demonstrate against pro- National Electoral Institute,
posed electoral reforms one of the country’s most
that would remake the trusted institutions.q