BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — A natural stone quarry in Indonesia’s West Java province collapsed on several people who were working in it on Friday, killing at least 10 people and leaving six workers missing, officials said.
The anti-immigration partyin recent local elections and is ahead in many opinion polls. Its argument is that too-high immigration is impacting on public services, housing and societal cohesion as a whole.
The figures released Thursday do not include those arriving in the U.K. by unauthorized means to seek asylum, many in flimsy,across the English Channel. Though that number is far lower — some 37,000 people crossed the English Channel on small boats last year — it’s amplified the heat surrounding the debate.A more detailed look at Thursday’s figures shows that the biggest contributor to the fall was a sharp decline in immigration, with the number of people coming into the U.K. below 1 million for the first time in around three years. However, the statistics agency also found that emigration swelled back to 2017 levels.
The number of arrivals in the U.K. surged from 2022 onward, driven by many factors, including the more than 200,000 people fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine and more than 150,000 from Hong Kong on special overseas visas.The period covered by the latest estimates follows the introduction in early 2024 by the then Conservative government of restrictions on people eligible to travel to the U.K. on work or study visas. Though the Conservatives, now the main opposition party, have sought to claim credit for the decline, one of the main reasons they were swept from power after 14 years was the increase in net migration levels to record highs.
In August, weeks after the Labour government took office, the country was convulsed by
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But millions of mainstream sports fans, especially in younger demographics, know him just as well — perhaps even better — from, which boasts nearly 2 million followers. There, DeChambeau takes on a myriad of challenges: trying to break 50 with partners ranging from fellow LIV star Sergio Garcia to President Donald Trump, attempting to set scoring records at random public courses that he’s never even seen, even playing matches against some top junior players.
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