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Despite French and U.K. efforts, the cross-Channel route, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, remains a major smuggling corridor for people fleeing conflict or poverty. Many migrants favor the U.K. for reasons of language, family ties or perceived easier access to asylum and work.The Home Office says 36,816 people arrived in the UK on small boats in 2024, 25% more than in 2023 (29,437). The highest number of arrivals was in 2022, with 45,774.

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed bythat largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries about potential new destruction has fallen, authorities said Saturday.A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland

, destroying much of the village. Buildings that weren’t buried were submerged in a lake created by the small Lonza River, whose course was dammed by the mass of material.Authorities worried that water pooling above the mass of rock and ice could lead to risks of its own. Still, the regional government in Valais canton (state) said that the Lonza has been flowing through the full length of the debris since Friday.

Geologist and regional official Raphaël Mayoraz said Saturday that the level of the lake has since gone down about 1 meter (3.3 feet).

“The speed at which this lake is emptying comes from the river eroding the deposit,” he said at a news conference. “This erosion is relatively slow, but that’s a good thing. If it is too fast, then there is instability in this channel, and that could lead to small slides of debris.”Nash said he knew Combs as “Puff” and Cassie as “Cass.” He said he responded to a Craigslist ad and started working at Bad Boy Entertainment as an intern and then a stylist from 2008 to 2018.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey put a picture of Nash in front of him and asked, “Is it a glamour shot of you?”“Yes. I look amazing,” Nash responded, drawing laughs.

Asked what he had heard Combs call Cassie over the years, Nash answered “Um, Baby Girl, CC, Cass” and then listed a number of slurs against women. Asked how often Combs used one particular slur, Nash said: “Um, quite a bit. That was his fave.”Nash later testified that Cassie had confided in him that she didn’t always want to go along with Combs’ demands that she have sex with other men during his drug-fueled “freak-off” marathons.