Tag: routes
Survivor describes tragedy on one of world's most dangerous migration routes – BBC News
The North Atlantic sea passage from Senegal to the Canary Islands – a journey of about 1,000 miles – is one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes. In August, a wooden fishing boat was found adrift off the Canary Islands with 38 people on board. It had set off from Senegal more than a month earlier carrying 101 people. One of the survivors, Adama…
Russia targets supply routes as the U.S. and NATO allies pump weapons into Ukraine
The wide plains of eastern Ukraine are now the site of a pitched battle between Ukrainian and Russian forces. American and allied weapons keep flowing in to assist Ukraine as it fends off fearsome Russian artillery and bombing. Meanwhile, a new report shows that the death toll in the war’s worst air strike could be double what was originally believed. Nick Schifrin reports from Kyiv….
Ukraine war: Russia targets arms supply routes
Ukraine’s defence ministry says Russian forces are continuing to attack the east of the country. As Russian forces are pressing into the eastern city of Slovyansk, Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford said that the nearby town of Lyman was already under heavy attack. “The shelling was too heavy,” Stratford said as he tried to access the city. Families are sheltering in bunkers and a crater was…
Australian floods cut off outback towns and major supply routes – BBC News
Flooding across South Australia has disrupted major supply chains and left outback communities cut off. The military has been called in to deliver food and essential items. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog #BBCNews