The U.K. government has announced financial sanctions targeting people-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the English ...

At least 21,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats since January, putting 2025 on course to be a record year. Many of those crossing are fleeing war, extreme poverty and persecution in ...

There has been a spike in Channel crossing attempts in 2024. AFP via Getty Images “Since Dec. 24, 23 maritime incidents have been thwarted by internal security forces, saving over 1,000 lives ...

Panaji: Goa-based swimmer, Arunima Bose, successfully swam across the 34km English Channel as part of a relay team, recently.Arunima was part of a fi.

At least 73 migrants have died trying to cross the English Channel to Britain this year, according to French authorities, making 2024 the deadliest year on record for the crossings.

Almost 37,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2024 but the highest figures were for 2022, when 45,755 people arrived. The highest daily total of arrivals since data began in ...

Two people have died after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel got into difficulties near Calais, said the French regional authority on Wednesday.

PARIS -- Just 10 days after a failed first try ended with Franky Zapata up to his neck in water, the French jet-ski champion successfully crossed the English Channel on his self-made "flyboard ...

Newport Beach prone paddlers Stuart Jeremias, in the yellow hat (L) and Spencer Wadsworth recently returned from their adventure on the other side of the world crossing the English Channel in a ...