{"id":45131,"date":"2022-06-03T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/afghans-western-links-among-rising-number-trying-cross-channel"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:00:07","slug":"afghans-with-western-links-among-rising-number-trying-to-cross-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45131","title":{"rendered":"Afghans with western links among rising number trying to cross Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fivefold increase in refugees from Afghanistan crossing in small boats this year as they flee Taliban<\/p>\n<p>Refugees who worked alongside international organisations in Afghanistan are among a rising number of Afghan asylum seekers in camps in northern France planning to cross the Channel in small boats.<\/p>\n<p>The number of asylum seekers from Afghanistan crossing the Channel in small boats has risen fivefold this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/may\/26\/rise-in-uk-asylum-approvals-renews-fears-about-rwanda-transfers\">immigration figures<\/a> released last week, as more refugees flee in the wake of the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/afghans-western-links-among-rising-number-trying-cross-channel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fivefold increase in refugees from Afghanistan crossing in small boats this year as they flee TalibanRefugees who worked alongside international organisations in Afghanistan are among a rising number of Afghan asylum seekers in camps in northern France&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,221,526,717,494,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-france","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-refugees","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45132,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131\/revisions\/45132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}