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One Person Dies as Migrants Aim to Cross English Channel

10 March 2025, United Kingdom, Dover: A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/dpa
10 March 2025, United Kingdom, Dover: A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/dpa
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One Person Dies as Migrants Aim to Cross English Channel

10 March 2025, United Kingdom, Dover: A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/dpa
10 March 2025, United Kingdom, Dover: A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, from a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/dpa

One person has died after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel from France got into difficulties overnight, said a local French authority on Thursday.
The French local authority responsible for the North Sea and English Channel regions said 15 people had been rescued and brought back to shore at the port of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, Reuters reported.
Both the British and French governments have made tackling migrants crossing the English Channel illegally - often in perilous conditions as they travel in dinghies or small boats - a high priority.
Data in January showed Britain's Labour government had removed 16,400 illegal migrants since coming to power last July, marking the highest rate of such removals since 2018, although Labour's political opponents say the government needs to do more.

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S. Korea Authorities Deploy Choppers, Troops to Battle Wildfire

A Korea Forest Service helicopter is used to help extinguish a forest fire near its ignition point in Uiseong. YONHAP/AFP
A Korea Forest Service helicopter is used to help extinguish a forest fire near its ignition point in Uiseong. YONHAP/AFP
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S. Korea Authorities Deploy Choppers, Troops to Battle Wildfire

A Korea Forest Service helicopter is used to help extinguish a forest fire near its ignition point in Uiseong. YONHAP/AFP
A Korea Forest Service helicopter is used to help extinguish a forest fire near its ignition point in Uiseong. YONHAP/AFP

South Korean authorities said Monday they would deploy dozens of helicopters and thousands of firefighters and soldiers as they struggle to control multiple wildfires in the southeast, which have been burning for days.

Four people have been killed so far, with officials warning that high winds and rising temperatures were hindering efforts to put out the blazes, AFP reported.

In Uiseong, nearly 7,000 hectares (17,000 acres) of land has been affected and around 600 people evacuated, Lim Sang-seop, head of the Korea Forest Service, told a press briefing.

"A total of 57 wildfire fighting helicopters are to be deployed to extinguish the fire," he said, adding that more than 2,600 fire fighting personnel -- including soldiers -- would be mobilized "to respond with all their might".

The fire had been partly contained but was still burning as of Monday afternoon.

The forest agency has issued "severe" fire warnings, its highest level, in multiple locations, including North and South Gyeongsang provinces, Busan and Daejeon.

A major wildfire claimed four lives over the weekend in Sancheong county, in South Gyeongsang province, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Seoul.

That fire was also partly contained by Monday -- but still burning.

The government declared a state of emergency in the affected regions, citing "the extensive damage caused by simultaneous wildfires across the country".

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was reinstated as acting president earlier Monday, visited the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, urging authorities to work together "until the wildfires are completely extinguished".

"It is a truly heartbreaking incident," he said, adding that he would meet people affected by the fires later Monday.

The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, urged authorities to "mobilize all means at their disposal to quickly and safely suppress the fires" and take further measures to prevent any additional wildfires.

Other phenomena such as forest fires, droughts, snowstorms and tropical storms can result from a combination of complex factors.