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Added on the 31/12/2020 10:21:41 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Trucks come and go at the port of Dover on the first working day since Britain left the EU's single market and customs union. IMAGES
Images show the port of Dover on the first day after the Brexit transition period ends and the UK officially leaves the EU single market. Scores of heavy goods vehicles have passed through the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France "without any problem", its operator has said, dispelling fears of immediate snarl-ups as Brexit took effect. Almost 200 lorries crossed into France and left the country for the UK after Britain formally left the EU customs union and single market at midnight in the final act of its exit from the European Union. IMAGES
Voting continues in Britain's deeply divisive election that poses a historic choice between an imminent split from the European Union and another referendum that could scrap the entire Brexit process. IMAGES
Michel Barnier says the Brexit transition period, during which the EU's rules will still apply to Britain as it quits, should last until the end of 2020. SOUNDBITE
Migrants arriving in the US are seen from the Mexican side of the border through a barbed wire fence as they wait for the expiration of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era border restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims. IMAGES