The horrific sinking of a boat full of refugees and asylum seekers in the English Channel has taken at least six lives. At least 65 people were on the boat when it capsized Saturday in the middle of ...

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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -British interior minister Suella Braverman set out plans on Tuesday for new powers which would ban migrants who cross the English Channel from claiming asylum and said ...

Channel migrants granted asylum in the UK will have to earn the right to settle or bring their families over, under new plans to be announced by Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister vowed to scrap the ...

Britain's interior minister on Wednesday questioned if asylum seekers increasingly using small boats to cross the Channel from France were genuinely fleeing persecution -- drawing immediate criticism ...

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Britain's government will announce on Tuesday plans for a new law barring those entering the country through unofficial routes from claiming asylum, in a bid to stop tens ...

Eritreans, Afghans, Iranians, Sudanese and Somalis accounted for almost three-fifths of all small boat arrivals.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed that "new and innovative solutions" are needed to tackle small boat crossings. The UK is paying France hundreds of ...