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Dunkirk
[duhn-kurk]
noun
French Dunkerque.a seaport in N France: site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330,000 men under German fire May 29–June 4, 1940.
a period of crisis or emergency when drastic measures must be enforced.
The smaller nations were facing a financial Dunkirk.
a city in W New York, on Lake Erie.
Dunkirk
The scene of a remarkable, though ignominious, retreat by the British army in World War II. Dunkirk, a town on the northern coast of France, was the last refuge of the British during the fall of France, and several hundred naval and civilian vessels took the troops back to England in shifts over three days.
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Lowden, whose film credits include Dunkirk and the upcoming Tornado, said the reopened cinema would provide a lift to Scotland's film-makers and storytellers.
He would head for private marinas, yacht clubs and other discreet locations around Dunkirk to collect the Vietnamese migrants who had been driven from a Paris safehouse.
The French coastguard said the person was in a group of 15 they had picked up from a boat carrying about 80, which left Dunkirk on Wednesday night.
These include a new specialist intelligence and judicial police unit in Dunkirk to speed up the arrest and prosecution of people-smugglers and training drone pilots to help intercept boats before they reach the sea.
Four people - two security guards and two migrants - were fatally shot on the Loon-Plage stretch of coastline near Dunkirk, unnamed security sources told outlets in France.
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