Afghan interpreters who worked with the British armed forces in Afghanistan will be granted asylum in the UK, announced the British Home Secretary and the UK’s Defense Secretary on Saturday, September 19.
According to reports in several British newspapers, the British government is planning to provide weekly flights to return migrants arriving in the UK via the Channel. The plans were revealed after a freedom of information request made by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
A court in Vietnam sentenced four people to several years in prison over their involvement in the deaths of 39 migrants, whose bodies were found in the back of a truck outside London last October.
Abdulfatah Hamdallah was found dead on a beach in northern France on August 19. The 28-year-old Sudanese migrant had tried to cross the Channel to the UK after his asylum application in France was rejected, according to media reports.
The UK government has deployed a military aircraft on Monday over the Channel as part of an increase in measures designed to deter migrants crossing. The government has also raised the possibility of using the Royal Navy to push migrant boats back and strengthen laws in order to make the crossing "unviable."
What drove Sudanese migrant Badreddin Abadlla Adam to attack six people in Glasgow last week? There is increasing evidence that Adam was suffering mental health issues due to inadequate housing at the hotel where he was placed. Now there are calls for an independent inquiry to be launched.
A UK government scheme to grant permanent residency to relatives of foreign nationals who died from COVID-19 while working for the National Health Service (NHS) has been expanded to also include family members of low-paid NHS workers. Their earlier exclusion from the scheme had attracted widespread criticism.
A record number of 86 migrants were intercepted in the English Channel on Tuesday as they tried to cross from France to the UK in small boats. It was the highest known number of migrants to have attempted the crossing at the same time.
An Iraqi migrant who tried to swim across the English Channel from France to Britain has drowned. His body has been found off the Belgian coast.
An Iranian migrant who fell into the water while trying to reach England has been declared missing presumed drowned. It could be the first recorded case of a migrant death while attempting to cross this dangerous sea, where several people have already disappeared, according to survivors and activists.
A study by the University of Glasgow has looked at the experiences and aspirations of Syrians in three different host countries, the UK, Lebanon and Greece. They hope that their findings will help inform policy makers to make decisions to aid integration.
An Australian singer-songwriter, Amy Shark, says two people were discovered hiding in the luggage compartment of her tour bus traveling from Brussels. The pair were reportedly migrants trying to reach Britain.