Three men, a woman and a child reported dead with vessel said to have been carrying more than 110 peopleFive people, including a child, have died in an attempt to cross the Channel in a small boat near the town of Wimereux, south of Calais, French authorities say.More than 110 people were said to have been on board the vessel when it left at 5am near the Plage des Allemands. Continue reading
Prospective migrants trying to reach the UK from France say smuggling operations are continuing after Tuesday's tragedy.
Without a silver bullet to stop the proliferation of dangerous content online, the government and law enforcement agencies will continue to fire at as many targets as possible, the communications minister says. Whether graphic content should remain on social media has become the subject of heated debate in the aftermath of a stabbing at a […]
Over 100 people marched down the streets of downtown Iowa City on Tuesday night to call for an end to sexual violence on campus. The UI’s annual Take Back the Night demonstration held by the University of Iowa’s Women’s Resource and Action Center, or WRAC, has become a historic safe space for sexual violence survivors.
Britain's new law allowing the deportation of undocumented asylum seekers to Rwanda is sparking fear among migrants who have come to France in the hope of crossing the Channel to England.Incredulity and trepidation spread in a makeshift camp at Loon-Plage, a town near Dunkirk on the northern French coast, where migrants were waiting for a chance to cross the water.Many said they realised that even if they reached their destination, they could quickly find themselves bundled onto a flight to...
The five people are reported to have died in a crush on the overcrowded boat.
Parliament was urged to finally pass the Rwanda bill last night after the number of illegal Channel crossings hit a new daily high for 2024.
Five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K., French authorities said Tuesday, just hours after the British government approved a migrant bill to deport some of those who entered the country illegally to Rwanda.
Some 6,265 people have arrived in Britain by dinghy since January, the Home Office said yesterday - a 24 per cent rise on the same period of 2023.
Arsen Murati was jailed for growing cannabis in November 2021 and a short time time later was removed from the country and sent to Greece, where he has dual nationality with Albania. But officers stopped a silver Honda Civic on the M62 on March 19 this year because of its poor state, and found the 29-year-old inside. They found his driving licence bearing his details and arrested him. He had been staying at an address on Barkly Road, Cross Flatts, Leeds, and admitted a charge of breaching a...
The deaths, including a child, come hours after the government passed the controversial Rwanda deportation plan.
Mustaf Cunaj, 41, was part of a network of traffickers, which smuggled some 10,000 migrants into the UK. He has now been jailed for nine years.