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12 killed as bus carrying migrants overturns in east Turkey

(AP) — A minibus carry- The vehicle tumbled into a emergency workers sift- before being ferried west to tainous route, according to
ing migrants overturned ditch while traveling over- ed through the burnt-out cities such as Istanbul and Metin Corabatir, president of
and caught fire in eastern night near Yumakli in Van wreckage. Ankara. the Ankara-based Center for
Turkey, killing 12 people province, which borders Iran. Asylum and Migration Stud-
and injuring 20 others, the Migrants, mostly from Iran, The planned U.S. with- ies.
state-run Anadolu news Television broadcasts showed Afghanistan and Pakistan, drawal from Afghanistan n June 2020, more than 60
agency reported Sunday. groaning survivors being regularly cross the Iranian has given added impetus to migrants drowned in Lake
treated by the roadside as border into Turkey on foot young men trying the moun- Van when their boat sank.

EU border agency to “significantly” step up Lithuania help

(AP) — The European gal border crossings from Be- thorities.
Union’s border agency is larus into Lithuania rose six-
pledging to “significant- fold, increasing the pressure In addition, Lithuania has set
ly” step up its support to on national border control up tent camps to accommo-
Lithuania in the coming authorities, Frontex said. The date the growing number of
days “due to the grow- phenomenon has acceler- migrants.
ing migratory pressure at ated in July. More than 1,500
Lithuania’s border with people have crossed into Nauseda, on a visit to Poland
Belarus” that the Baltic Lithuania from Belarus in the on Sunday, said that “tech-
nation is trying to contain. past two months — 20 times nical steps are necessary to
more than in all of 2020. make the border work and be
The decision by Frontex, a real barrier, because now it
the agency responsible for Tensions between the EU and can be easily crossed.”
coordinating border control Belarus escalated even more
between EU member states after Belarus diverted a pas- Nauseda said Lithuania was
and third countries, was an- senger jet on May 23 to arrest talking to the governments
nounced late Saturday fol- an opposition journalist. Be- of the countries where the
lowing a video call between started earlier this month office said. larus’ authoritarian President migrants come from and also
Frontex’s Executive Director with the deployment of a Alexander Lukashenko has with transit countries like
Fabrice Leggeri and Lithu- dozen officers and patrol cars, In a tweet, Nauseda thanked said his country will halt co- Turkey in order to “curb the
anian President Gitanas Nau- will more than double next Frontex for its support “to operation with the 27-nation (illegal migration) process
seda. week, the agency said. manage flows of illegal mi- bloc on stemming migration that is being supported by the
grants through eastern bor- in retaliation for bruising Belarusian regime.”
“Lithuania’s border is our Nauseda’s office said rein- der” with Belarus, another economic sanctions the EU
common external border forcements pledged by Fron- former Soviet republic that is slapped on Belarus over the “It is a kind of revenge for
and Frontex stands ready to tex were expected to reach not in the EU. passenger jet diversion. EU sanctions,” Nauseda said
help where needed,” Leggeri Lithuania by July 15 and that in Krakow, following talks
said in a statement. “We are some armed border patrols Lithuania, which has granted On Friday, Lithuania started with Poland’s President An-
ready to strengthen our level and additional translators ar- refuge to Belarus opposition building a double barbed wire drzej Duda.
of support and deploy more rived over the weekend. In figures, accuses its neigh- fence on the Belarus border.
European standing corps of- addition, a patrol helicopter bor of organizing the border It will run for 550 kilometers Duda said Poland will “ex-
ficers and equipment” to will be sent to Lithuania from crossings by people mainly (342 miles), covering most tend the necessary assistance”
Lithuania, an EU and NATO neighboring Poland and dis- from Iraq, the Mideast and of the nearly 680-kilometer to Lithuania and was talking
member of 2.8 million. cussions were under way to Africa. (423-mile) border and cost 41 about the best way to do that
dispatch another helicopter million euros ($48 million), with Frontex.
Frontex’s operation, which from Germany, Nauseda’s In June, the number of ille- according to Lithuanian au-
South Africa faces rioting over jailing of ex-leader Zuma

(AP) — Violent rioting has Africa’s largest city.
erupted in two South Afri-
can provinces against the Several hundred people
imprisonment of former looted and burned stores in
President Jacob Zuma, the Alexandra and Bramley
with supporters blocking neighborhoods of Johannes-
roads and looting shops. burg, according to a state-
At least 62 people were ment by police Maj. Gen.
arrested, South Africa po- Mathapelo Peters.
lice said Sunday.
The body of a 40-year-old
Zuma started serving a man was recovered from a
15-month sentence for con- shop that had been burned
tempt of court last week. and police are investigating
Zuma has been imprisoned the circumstances, he said. In
for defying a court order to addition, at least three police
testify before a state-backed officers were injured when
inquiry probing allegations of trying to arrest looters and
corruption during his term as one was hospitalized, accord-
president from 2009 to 2018. ing to the statement.

His bid to be released from Police said they are increas-
the Estcourt Correctional ing capacity in both provinc-
Center was rejected by a re- es and warned Zuma’s sup-
gional court on Friday. He is porters against inciting vio-
set to make another attempt highest court. porters began in his home over the weekend spread to lence on social media, saying
Gauteng province, which in-
region
of
KwaZulu-Na-
Monday with the Constitu- they could become liable for
tional Court, the country’s The rioting by Zuma’s sup- tal province last week and cludes Johannesburg, South criminal charges.