LONDON: People smugglers are using UK tourist visas to enter Britain and travel onward to the EU via illegal crossings, the Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Through the illegal “back door” route, about 22 North African migrants — including Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians — were captured
ROME: Italian authorities have detained a migrant rescue ship for 20 days after it disobeyed an order about where to disembark its passengers, the charity which operates the vessel said on Tuesday. The 14-metre ex-lifeboat Aurora picked up 72 people in distress in the central Mediterranean
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blames the “criminal gangs” facilitating small boat Channel crossings for the “horrific” weekend deaths of at least six migrants, his spokesman said. French authorities said one person could still be missing. The identity of the six was still being investigated,
LONDON: The number of migrants to have crossed the English Channel into the UK by small boat since 2018 reached 100,000 people this week, driven in part by refugees fleeing from Afghanistan and the Middle East. At least nine boats were intercepted by the Royal National
LONDON: Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, the Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who have just reached the Italian island of Lampedusa. Ansa said four people who survived the shipwreck told rescuers that they were
ALASAA, Libya: Exhausted, pregnant and weeping, Sudanese nurse Tafaul Omar sat under the scorching desert sun along with 14 other migrants who said they had been arrested by Tunisian authorities and dumped in the border area with Libya – a practice Tunisia denies. The group of
PORTLAND: Britain on Monday began housing migrants on board a barge docked off the southwest English coast, in its latest controversial immigration policy that has drawn heavy criticism from locals and rights campaigners. The “Bibby Stockholm,” which has been moored for weeks in Portland on the
NEW YORK: New York, once the gateway to the United States through Ellis Island and a city built by immigrants, is full, according to the mayor – but migrants seeking a better life continue to arrive by the hundreds. Dozens of asylum seekers, mainly from West
SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal: The small mounds of sand that dot the beach in northern Senegal blend into the terrain. But thick rope juts out from beneath the piles. Pieces of black plastic bags are scattered nearby, and green netting is strewn on top. That’s how residents in
RAS JEDIR (Libya): African migrants pleaded to be saved from a desert zone between Libya and Tunisia, weeks after Tunisian authorities allegedly dumped dozens of them there with nothing. "We are dying. We are dying by the minute," a Nigerian who wanted to be identified only