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The extraordinary scenes came as Sir Keir Starmer announced his latest attempt to curb numbers and the United Nations said ...
Fresh protests are expected outside an asylum seeker hotel in Epping as police impose new restrictions on those attending.
Yesterday Iranian media published new CCTV footage purporting to show an attack on Tehran during the war which was widely shared online - one post alone has had 280,000 views on X. The video captures ...
The eastern European country's foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the 116-mile fence has proved "98% effective" in stopping migrants ...
A man has died while trying to cross the English Channel from northern France, according to local authorities. This incident ...
Solutions have proved elusive As far back as 2001, the two countries were discussing ways to stop migrants stowing away on trains and trucks using the tunnel under the channel.
Channel crossings are a longstanding challenge Britain receives fewer asylum-seekers than Mediterranean European countries, but sees thousands of very visible arrivals each year as migrants cross ...
The number of migrants crossing the English Channel has set a new record for the first half of the year. Some 19,982 migrants had arrived in the UK after making the dangerous crossing by the end ...