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Added on the 08/11/2021 21:10:13 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The Peace Palace, headquarters of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Netherlands, as South Africa asks the top UN court to order an immediate halt to Israel's incursion in Rafah, describing it as a "genocidal" operation threatening the "very survival of Palestinians". IMAGES
Protesters in London try to block the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start. The protesters occupy the road in front of a bus believed to be waiting to take asylum seekers from a hotel in the Peckham area of the British capital to an accommodation barge moored off the south coast of England. A London Metropolitan Police statement said a number of people had been arrested. IMAGES
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits a centre for the hundreds of migrants that remain in Belarus after attempting to cross into the EU via the Polish border. Thousands of migrants -- mainly Iraqi Kurds -- have spent months trying to get into the European Union from Belarus. The crisis escalated earlier this month with around 2,000 setting up a makeshift camp on the border in freezing conditions. IMAGES
On a trip to Calais, French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin calls for a "very tough, coordinated, international response" after the death of at least 31 migrants in the Channel and called on other European countries concerned to fight against smugglers "like we fight against terrorists". SOUNDBITE
A Yemeni migrant who died in Poland in September is laid to rest in the eastern village of Bohoniki, close to the border with Belarus. IMAGES