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Camped in Calais, migrants renew resolve to try for England
Read full article: Camped in Calais, migrants renew resolve to try for EnglandAt the makeshift camps near Calais and Dunkirk, migrants are digging in, waiting for their chance to make a dash across the English Channel despite the deaths of at least 27 people this week when their boat sank a few miles (kilometers) from the French coast.
Channel migrant deaths: Smugglers net millions per kilometer
Read full article: Channel migrant deaths: Smugglers net millions per kilometerMigrant-smuggling networks organizing English Channel crossings have reaped tens of millions of euros this year, which is the busiest and deadliest ever recorded.
BP, Exxon warn of supply issues in UK due to driver shortage
Read full article: BP, Exxon warn of supply issues in UK due to driver shortageThe British government is trying to ease concerns of a fuel crisis after oil giants BP and ExxonMobil-owned Esso warned they had to ration supplies and close some gas stations as a result of a truck driver shortage.
Supply issues take shakes off the menu at British McDonald's
Read full article: Supply issues take shakes off the menu at British McDonald'sMcDonald’s says it has pulled milkshakes from the menu in all 1,250 of its British restaurants because of supply problems stemming from a shortage of truck drivers.
Gig apps for a pandemic economy: Part time, no commitment
Read full article: Gig apps for a pandemic economy: Part time, no commitmentA breed of gig apps tailored for short-term work slots — from Stint to Instawork to Gigpro — is gaining popularity in the United Kingdom as well as in the United States as one response to the peculiar ways in which economies have been rebounding from the pandemic recession.
Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80
Read full article: Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80FILE - Elsa Peretti, left, poses with designer Halston after a fashion show in New York on June 15, 1970. Famed jewelry designer Elsa Peretti, a formal Halston model turned Tiffany & Co. legend, is dead at age 80. According to a family statement, Peretti died Thursday night in her sleep at home in a small village outside Barcelona. “Elsa was not only a designer but a way of life,” Tiffany said in a statement Friday. In recognition of her work, Tiffany established the Elsa Peretti professorship in jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the first endowed professorship in the history of FIT.