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(Reuters) –
Five migrants, including a child, lost their lives while trying to cross the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat on Tuesday, hours after Britain passed a bill…

A judge at the federal level decided on Friday that a recent initiative permitting a maximum of 30,000 potential asylum-seekers from four nations to come into the U.S. through airports every month can persist, dealing a setback to Republican authorities in Texas who filed a lawsuit to stop the program. The legal case focuses on the government's utilization of parole under immigration law to…