CONSTRUCTION of the undersea Channel Tunnel connecting the United Kingdom and France – also known as Chunnel – began in 1988, with the first tunnel opening on May 6, 1994. Critics, however ...

A migrant has died after trying to cross the English Channel in an overloaded boat, a day after another person died attempting the journey. The French coastguard said the person was in a group of ...

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Dozens of small boat migrants have been intercepted in the English Channel during a busy ... before tighter security around ports and the Channel Tunnel prompted people smugglers to change their ...

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently uncovered and demolished an underground tunnel system in Rafah, operated by Hamas. The tunnel was found beneath what was once a kindergarten and was just 100 ...

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover (PA) More than 700 migrants crossed the English Channel on Tuesday in the highest number of arrivals on a single day so far this year.

Engineers are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Channel Tunnel, which established the first fixed link between Britain and Europe since the Ice Age. Here are 10 ...

A total of 5,512 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far in 2025 More than 5,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel so far in 2025, Home Office data shows.

A new report forecasts a drop in Channel Tunnel rail fares of nearly a third as new operators enter the market. In the next 15 years, passengers on the Channel Tunnel rail line could triple ...

Migrants cross the English Channel in a small boat in March 2024 A migrant has died after trying to cross the English Channel in an overloaded boat, a day after another person died attempting the ...

The number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel has set a new record for the first three months of the year. There have been 5,847 arrivals so far in 2025, including ...