Migrants attempt Channel crossing 24 hours after 12 killed Less than a day after a makeshift boat was ripped open and capsized off the coast of France, Sky News found a group sitting by a French roadside after their attempt to cross the English Channel had failed. The ...
Officials noted that the archipelago has seen a surge inmigrantarrivals since the start of 2024, with 7,270 making the crossing in January. They added last month's figures are around the same number of arrivals as there were in the first six months of last year...
The 27 migrants drowned when their dinghy deflated as they made the dangerous crossing across some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The bodies were first spotted by a fishing boat. So far, only one victim, a Kurdish woman from northern Iraq, had been named in British media. Maryam ...
Despite this, the UK continues to see far fewer boat arrivals and asylum claims than many of its European counterparts. Earlier this year the RNLI saw a large spike in donations after the charity’s chief executive defended its role in rescuing people crossing the English Channel, describing it...
Cabinet to back UK return plan for migrants crossing from Northern Ireland The Cabinet is expected to back emergency legislation on Tuesday to facilitate transfer to the United Kingdom of asylum seekers who have arrived through Northern Ireland – but British...
Some 299 were detected in 2018, followed by 1,843 in 2019 and 8,466 in 2020, official figures show. Meanwhile, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta have complained they were forced to bear the brunt of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and called for changes in European Union poli...
Moreover, Willow Warblers had a two-fold larger mortality while crossing the Sahara Desert in spring after dry years in the Sahel than in wet years [25]. 3.2.6. Influence of the Local Temperatures (TLEB) during Migration For many passerine migrants in Europe, earlier spring arrivals since ...