Crossing Through Forest, Belarusians Flee The Horror By Vidmantas Balkunas
05/19/21 AT 1:13 AM
Shivering on a cool night on the border between Belarus and Lithuania, a 19-year-old Belarusian has just fled his homeland through a forest, dodging regime border guards along the way.
He is one of dozens of Belarusians to have walked across this EU border illegally after a bloody crackdown in Belarus in the wake of a disputed election last August. I m hugely relieved. I ve left the horror, the young Belarusian told AFP, minutes after his arrival on Lithuanian soil at night.
The man, who requested that his name not be published, described his journey last month as relatively easy but frightening nonetheless.
From India, Brazil and beyond: Pandemic refugees at the US border
18 May, 2021 05:00 AM
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The Gomez family walks up a hill to to surrender themselves to US Border Patrol agents along the border with Mexico in Yuma, Arizona. Photo / Ariana Drehsler, The New York Times
The Gomez family walks up a hill to to surrender themselves to US Border Patrol agents along the border with Mexico in Yuma, Arizona. Photo / Ariana Drehsler, The New York Times
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By: Miriam Jordan
Fleeing virus-devastated economies, migrants are travelling long distances to reach the United States and then walking through gaps in the border wall. The Arizona desert has become a favorite crossing point.
Covid 19 coronavirus: US tribe shares vaccine with relatives, neighbours in Canada
5 May, 2021 11:22 PM
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Canadians at the Piegan-Carway border to receive a COVID-19 from the Blackfeet tribe. Photo / AP
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On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season s hottest commodity a Covid-19 vaccine from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses.
The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana provided about 1000 surplus vaccines last month to its First Nations relatives and others from across the border, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the United States and Canada are distributing doses. While more than 30 per cent of adults in the US are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3 per cent.