Three men have been arrested in connection with the deaths of five migrants in the English Channel on Tuesday, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.
The men were detained on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK (...)
The UK parliament has finally passed a contentious bill that will allow the government to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims to be considered by the East African nation.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's efforts had been stuck between (...)
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insists his policy to process asylum seekers in Rwanda will become law, even if it means MPs sitting late into the night to pass it.
There has been a prolonged stand-off over the bill between the two Houses of (...)
The first flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks Rishi Sunak has announced — missing his original spring target.
The government has already prepared an airfield and secured charter plane slots to ensure flights (...)
On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border.
On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, (...)
The British government has ruled out making concessions to get its Rwanda deportation law through the House of Lords later.
MPs are voting on the bill once again, as wrangling continues over the plan to send asylum seekers to the east African (...)
The British government hopes that its plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda will be the law of the land before the week is out.
MPs will vote on it, again, later.
It follows the latest attempts by the House of Lords to change it, which are (...)
A mortar attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed three soldiers from a southern African military force.
All of those who died were from Tanzania. Three others were hurt.
"Hostile" missile fire "fell near the camp where they (...)
Rwanda's president said the international community "failed all of us", as he marked 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed around 800,000 people.
President Paul Kagame addressed dignitaries and world leaders who had gathered in Rwanda's (...)
Children were among those brought ashore in Kent after crossing the English Channel in small boats on Tuesday.
Young children with blankets could be seen being supported by staff as Border Force vessels arrived into Dover carrying large numbers of (...)
European liberals have put forward not one but three names to lead their campaign for the elections to the European Parliament.
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a German politician who chairs the Bundestag's defense committee, will be joined by two (...)
All but one of the 100 cities with the world's worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide.
The (...)
The mood in the Conservative Party is dark, and it has noticeably darkened over the past few days.
Why? Last week was not a good week for Rishi Sunak, to say the least. First Lee Anderson, who had been suspended from the Conservative ranks over (...)
Ten votes are expected in the House of Commons later on the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
It is nearly two years since Boris Johnson first proposed the idea, to try to put people off attempting dangerous crossings of the (...)
To the casual observer, it seemed like the long-cherished dream of a new single currency for East Africa had come to fruition.
An account on X, called "Government of East Africa", complete with a grey tick suggesting it was the real deal, released (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Tuesday in Riyadh, reiterated the Kingdom's support for regional and international efforts to ban all forms of weapons of mass destruction.
The backing comes following its (...)
Zero energy light bulbs and sturdy bricks for schools and homes.
Some innovative communities in South Sudan are reusing waste in new ways as the world rallies to ban plastic pollution by the year's end, with help from a small team of experts led by (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved the Law for the Protection of Whistleblowers, Witnesses, Experts and Victims.
The Weekly session of the Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in Riyadh, also (...)
Emile Bolingo is not sure how long he and other residents of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, can hold out.
This major city in the region, with about two million people, has been cut off from the farms that feed it for several (...)
The United Nations refugee agency has said a remote British territory in the Indian Ocean, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base, is "not a suitable location" for migrants to be held long-term, after being granted rare access.
Dozens of Sri (...)
The British parliament has approved a controversial bill to allow the country to send refugees arriving in the UK to Rwanda, in east Africa, as the government overcame rebels in its own party and defied critics who warn the bill breaches (...)
Rishi Sunak is facing a crucial vote on his Rwanda bill, after two Conservative deputy chairmen and a ministerial aide resigned to rebel over the issue.
On Tuesday Lee Anderson, Brendan Clarke-Smith and Jane Stevenson stepped down to vote for (...)
Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the UK is "prepared to back our words with actions" against the Houthis, after taking military action in Yemen over their attacks in the Red Sea.
Lord Cameron told the BBC the US-UK air strikes were needed after (...)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has denied he had doubts about the government's Rwanda policy when he was chancellor.
Documents seen by the BBC suggest that in March 2022 Sunak had concerns about the cost of sending migrants to the African country.
The (...)
Border officials in the UK and France have welcomed a "really significant" drop in the number of migrants crossing the English Channel this year in small boats.
Official figures are down by over a third compared with 2022.
The UK has helped to fund (...)