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Added on the 24/12/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Thousands of passengers are awaiting more information at St Pancras International station in London as the result of a wildcat strike by workers operating the Channel Tunnel which has blocked train travel between France and Britain since midday on Thursday 21 December. IMAGES
Thousands of Afghans are stranded at the border with Pakistan, after a Pakistani government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. Islamabad has given 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until November 1 to leave voluntarily or be forcibly removed. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of festivalgoers are stranded in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death. IMAGES
At least 10,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are stranded in Necoclí, a port town on the Colombian coast near Panama. According to the local ombudsman, the migrants are held up waiting for boats to take them to the border with the Central American country, in the hope of eventually reaching the United States. IMAGES
Ashford (UK), Dec 22 (EFE), (Camera: Vickie Flores).- Hundreds of truck drivers spent a second night in their vehicles in the southeastern English county of Kent waiting for France to reopen the Channel Tunnel border, which was closed Sunday because of the coronavirus crisis.The British government estimated on Tuesday that 945 trucks were stranded near the port of Dover.French authorities on Sunday night closed the border with the United Kingdom after confirming the detection of a new mutation of the coronavirus, which is highly contagious.FOOTAGE OF M20 MOTORWAY ON TUESDAY.