With arrivals still waiting in doorways and no timeline for removal, residents of the Spanish enclave told The Epoch Times they fear the ordeal isn’t over.
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The Spanish territory of Ceuta is still reeling after an estimated 50,000 illegal immigrants swam across the sea border from Morocco to the city of 84,000. With arrivals still waiting in doorways and no timeline for removal, residents of the Spanish enclave told The Epoch Times they fear the ordeal isn’t over.
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President Donald Trump said he called off planned military strikes on Iran on Saturday night at the urging of regional allies and that negotiations with Iran will begin on Monday.
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Democratic voters in two Midwestern battlegrounds will choose nominees over the next nine days in primaries that have become two of the party’s most closely watched contests between its progressive and establishment wings.
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AI-generated music is flooding streaming services, and most listeners can’t tell the difference. Here’s how the music industry is responding.
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🍵 Health: One of the most common knee surgeries may be doing more harm than good. A Finnish clinical trial found that partial meniscectomy may accelerate osteoarthritis in middle-aged and older patients.
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Moroccan migrants swim across the sea border into Ceuta on July 31, 2026. (Etienne Fauchaire for The Epoch Times) |
CEUTA, Spain—By Aug. 1, the beach where tens of thousands of illegal immigrants came ashore in Ceuta stood largely empty and patrol boats idled beside 550 yards of floating containment barrier that had gone up only that morning. But the impact of the mass influx of an estimated 50,000 on the city of 84,000 was not over.
While some had returned across the border to Morocco, others had moved inland. Masses of illegal immigrants remained scattered across the city, waiting in doorways, side streets, and outlying neighborhoods, with no clear answer on how long sending them all back would take.
The city’s mayor-president, Juan Jesús Vivas, appearing on Aug. 1 alongside People’s Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, welcomed the return of many of the illegal arrivals but said “Ceuta has not achieved normality,” with several thousand still to be sent back amid a climate of unease.
Residents who spoke with The Epoch Times blamed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government for the breach and doubted that the remaining removals would be quick, with several saying the scenes were reminiscent of events from 2021.
Soldiers and local police spent Aug. 1 sweeping neighborhoods, directing any small encampments of illegal immigrants back toward the border and making clear that no regularization of such arrivals from Morocco was coming. The Civil Guard was also assigned to watch El Tarajal beach to deter fresh arrival attempts and to limit the risk of drownings, a soldier posted nearby said. The previous evening, The Epoch Times had witnessed illegal immigrants, far fewer than at the peak, swimming into Ceuta unimpeded. Sánchez’s Government Under Pressure
The illegal migration crisis has intensified criticism of Spain’s socialist government from the right-wing opposition as well as the country’s European neighbors.
Juan Sergio Redondo, president and spokesman of the national-conservative Vox party in Ceuta, told The Epoch Times that “the migrant crisis [has] not been solved because of the submission of Pedro Sánchez’s government to Morocco’s interests and our suicidal immigration policies.” He warned that the deportations will take time.
“It is impossible for these people to leave, or to be sent back, in a matter of days,” he said. “Many go back voluntarily ... but others have no intention of going back.” (More) |
- Senate leaders reached an agreement on a stopgap funding bill that would keep the government open through Dec. 11. The stopgap would give lawmakers time to negotiate full-year spending bills ahead of the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year.
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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said that fellow Republican and former son-in-law Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) should step down in the midst of abuse allegations that were lodged against him in court documents.
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The renewed Red Sea standoff has underscored the persistent threat posed by Yemen’s Houthis.
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- Michigan has joined a list of at least seven states that have reported cyberattacks on their water systems over the past week.
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NBC “TODAY” show co-host Savannah Guthrie said her family is “begging for help” for clues to the whereabouts of her mother in an Instagram post on Saturday, the six-month anniversary of when the 84-year-old went missing.
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Beijing will implement new exit-entry regulations in September that broaden authorities’ power to restrict overseas travel by Chinese citizens. It will also impose stricter penalties on foreign nationals who submit false information, violate border rules, or are placed on China’s restricted lists when seeking entry.
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A widely performed knee operation offered no lasting advantage over placebo surgery for degenerative meniscal tears—and may have increased their risk of osteoarthritis, according to a 10-year randomized trial. The procedure, known as arthroscopic partial meniscectomy, treats meniscus tear, a common problem that causes symptoms like locking, catching, and persistent pain. It involves trimming and removing damaged meniscal tissue.
Researchers enrolled 146 adults ages 35 to 65 who had persistent knee symptoms associated with a degenerative tear of the meniscus. At the end of the study, patients who underwent the operation reported no clinically meaningful improvement in knee pain or function compared with those who received placebo surgery.
Radiographic osteoarthritis progressed in 81 percent of the meniscectomy group, compared with 70 percent of the placebo group. In addition, 12 percent of patients who underwent meniscectomy later received a knee replacement or high tibial osteotomy—a surgery that realigns the knee—compared with 4 percent of the placebo group.
“For the vast majority of these patients, the procedure provides no meaningful long-term benefit and should no longer be routinely performed,” Teppo Järvinen, professor at the University of Helsinki and the study’s principal investigator, told The Epoch Times.
The meniscus is a crescent-shaped piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber between the thigh and shin bones. A torn meniscus is one of the most common knee injuries, and partial meniscectomy, which trims away the damaged portions, has become one of the world’s most frequently performed orthopedic surgeries.
The rationale originally came from younger patients with traumatic injuries, where symptoms were clearly linked to the tear itself. As MRI became more widely used, similar-looking tears were increasingly detected in middle-aged and older adults with knee pain. (More) |
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