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A court in Lille, France, convicts 18 people, including nine in absentia, for participating in an international human smuggling network that transported migrants across the English Channel. The sentences range from two to fifteen years in prison.
2024-11-5

One person is killed while attempting to cross the English Channel in a dinghy. Three other bodies are found on beaches near Neufchâtel-Hardelot and Équihen-Plage, France.
2024-10-30

During a people smuggling operation, at least 12 migrants drown when their boat breaks apart and capsizes in the English Channel.
2024-09-3

Five migrants drown while attempting to cross the English Channel and 49 others are rescued.
2024-04-23

Six people are killed and fifty others are rescued when a boat carrying migrants capsizes in the English Channel off the coast of Calais, France.
2023-08-12

Researchers at the Konkoly Observatory in Hungary discover 2023 CX, a 1 m asteroid predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over the English Channel at 03:00 UTC, making it the seventh asteroid to be discovered before impacting Earth.
2023-02-12

Twenty-seven people drown after a dinghy carrying migrants sinks in the English Channel near Calais, France.
2021-11-24

Last-ditch talks are held between British and French authorities as local authorities in the ports of Calais and Boulogne warn of a "disaster" if the French government goes ahead with its plan to "clog up" the English Channel and disrupt the trade and sailing of British vessels in French ports. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the UK could consider "formal action" under trade agreements.
2021-10-30

In a rare joint press release, European car makers warn that a no-deal Brexit, introducing administrative hassle and tariffs, would have a "seismic" impact on frictionless trading conditions and that it would deal a "severe" blow to the industry's just-in-time manufacturing supply chains, also potentially affecting "consumer choice and affordability on both sides of the Channel".
2019-09-23

Russian frigate "Yaroslav Mudry" passes through the English Channel, and is shadowed by Royal Navy coastal defence ship HMS "St Albans".
2018-04-20