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After three months, the state of emergency in Poland will expire in the border region with Belarus. But a new law allows journalists to continue to be denied access. After the end of the three-month state of emergency , Poland is restricting access to the border area with Belarus with a new law. The regulation passed by the Polish parliament and signed by President Andrzej Duda makes it possible, on the recommendation of the national border protection authority, to deny access to an area 15 kilometers wide for security reasons. Exceptions should only be made for residents or for people who work or study there. The border guard management also decides on access for journalists. The controversial state of emergency for the border region, which has been in force since September, automatically expires at midnight. Russia Tests Another Hypersonic Missile According to Polish law, the state of emergency can only be imposed for a maximum of three months. The government in Warsaw had proclaimed...

After the death of 27 refugees in the English Channel, the residents want to crack down on people smugglers. A Frontex aircraft is to monitor the inlet "day and night". At a crisis meeting on migration across the English Channel, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany agreed to crack down on smugglers. From Wednesday, an aircraft belonging to the EU border protection agency Frontex is to monitor the coast of the English Channel. The plane will fly over the area from France to the Netherlands "day and night", said French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after the crisis meeting, which was also attended by representatives of the EU Commission, as well as the Frontex and Europol authorities. Fisheries Dispute With Great Britain: French Fishermen Block Ports France's government is ready to work with its "British friends" to stop migrants on their way to Britain, said the French interior minister. But this must be done "at eye level". Great...

In the Polish-Belarusian border region, up to 4,000 people camp in icy temperatures. Lithuania wants to impose a state of emergency for its border area. When the temperature was below zero, thousands of refugees spent the night in tents in the border region between Belarus and Poland. Belarusian state media released photos and videos of people gathered around campfires and children lying in sleeping bags on the ground in the forest area. The local Polish police authority announced on Twitter that it was quiet except for a stone's throw. The government in Warsaw and the EU are accusing the authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of having people flown in from crisis regions such as Afghanistan and Iraq in order to smuggle them into the EU. On Monday, according to the Polish authorities, larger groups of refugees on the Belarusian side near the now closed Kuźnica border crossing tried in vain to break through the fence. According to Polish authorities, there were betw...