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Asylum Seekers Arriving In UK By Sea Top 10,000 This Year: Data
More than 10,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain in small boats so far this year, updated government data showed on Saturday, underlining a key challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a July 4 national election.
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Migrant Crossings To UK Hit New Record In 2024, Heaping Pressure On Rishi Sunak
More than 4,600 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain on small boats so far in 2024, a record total for the first three months of the year and giving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a fresh political headache.
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"Must Stop The Boats": UK Proposes Bill To Detain, Deport Illegal Asylum Seekers
"It has to be that if you come here illegally you will be detained and swiftly removed," UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said.
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Firebombs Thrown At UK Immigration Office Handling Asylum Seekers
An attacker on Sunday threw firebombs at an immigration office used to process asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats and was later found dead.
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Afghan Charged Over Smuggling Asylum-Seekers To Australia
An Afghan man who reportedly made millions of dollars smuggling asylum-seekers to Australia by boat has been extradited from Indonesia and charged with 10 offences, Australian police said on Friday.
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US To Resettle Australia's Refugees Languishing On Islands
The United States has agreed to resettle an unspecified number of refugees languishing in Pacific island camps in a deal that is expected to inspire more asylum seekers to attempt to reach Australia by boat, officials said on Sunday.
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Australia Says 28 Asylum Seeker Boats Have Been Turned Back
The Australian government says it has turned back 28 boats to prevent asylum seekers from reaching Australia during three years in power, with the latest carrying 21 Vietnamese intercepted this month.
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Pope Francis Heads Back To Migrant Crisis Frontline
Pope Francis returns to the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis on Saturday when he visits Lesbos, the Greek island struggling to cope with the mass influx of asylum seekers arriving by boat from Turkey.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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Dreams of Drowning: Italy Struggles to Help Traumatised Migrants
The sensation of drowning, short-term memory loss, insomnia and suicidal tendencies: they may have made it safely to Italy, but many asylum seekers are plagued by symptoms of trauma and the psychological help they need is in short supply.
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Asylum Seekers Arriving In UK By Sea Top 10,000 This Year: Data
More than 10,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain in small boats so far this year, updated government data showed on Saturday, underlining a key challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a July 4 national election.
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Migrant Crossings To UK Hit New Record In 2024, Heaping Pressure On Rishi Sunak
More than 4,600 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain on small boats so far in 2024, a record total for the first three months of the year and giving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a fresh political headache.
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"Must Stop The Boats": UK Proposes Bill To Detain, Deport Illegal Asylum Seekers
"It has to be that if you come here illegally you will be detained and swiftly removed," UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said.
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Firebombs Thrown At UK Immigration Office Handling Asylum Seekers
An attacker on Sunday threw firebombs at an immigration office used to process asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats and was later found dead.
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Afghan Charged Over Smuggling Asylum-Seekers To Australia
An Afghan man who reportedly made millions of dollars smuggling asylum-seekers to Australia by boat has been extradited from Indonesia and charged with 10 offences, Australian police said on Friday.
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US To Resettle Australia's Refugees Languishing On Islands
The United States has agreed to resettle an unspecified number of refugees languishing in Pacific island camps in a deal that is expected to inspire more asylum seekers to attempt to reach Australia by boat, officials said on Sunday.
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Australia Says 28 Asylum Seeker Boats Have Been Turned Back
The Australian government says it has turned back 28 boats to prevent asylum seekers from reaching Australia during three years in power, with the latest carrying 21 Vietnamese intercepted this month.
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Pope Francis Heads Back To Migrant Crisis Frontline
Pope Francis returns to the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis on Saturday when he visits Lesbos, the Greek island struggling to cope with the mass influx of asylum seekers arriving by boat from Turkey.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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Dreams of Drowning: Italy Struggles to Help Traumatised Migrants
The sensation of drowning, short-term memory loss, insomnia and suicidal tendencies: they may have made it safely to Italy, but many asylum seekers are plagued by symptoms of trauma and the psychological help they need is in short supply.
