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On one wintry night in February 2004, across the treacherous sandflats of Morecambe Bay in northwest England, dozens of Chinese cockle pickers were already hours into filling their buckets with heaps of bivalves. Their back-breaking toil would earn them a pittance of five pounds per 25-kilogram bag at the end of the day. Any other profit made from the lucrative trade would be pocketed by the local criminal agents, who trafficked the workers illegally from poverty-stricken provinces of China into the United Kingdom.
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Die Schäden nach den Unwettern Montagabend sind im Pongau und Pinzgau groß. Das Aufräumen werde „Wochen dauern“, sagte der Pongauer Bezirkshauptmann Harald Wimmer Dienstagvormittag. Alleine in St. Johann im Pongau gab es mehr als 140 Einsätze, die Schadenserhebung dauert noch.
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