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

Individuals and entities sanctioned include a small boat supplier in Asia and gang leaders based in North Africa.

Officials used new legal powers to penalize and bar networks run by gangs and organized crime. But experts and critics say the actions are unlikely to stem the surging tide of migration.

A man smuggled 21 Albanians across the English Channel in a luxury £70,000 yacht. Bleda Bega, also from Albania was caught by ...

The Foreign Office has named the first 25 targets of its sanctions aimed at key figures who assist illegal migration across ...

Criminals responsible for hundreds of dangerous small boat crossings are being sanctioned - meaning they face having their ...

But not having heard back from their communications, Patrick opted to head to France to gather more evidence which they could ...

Gang ring leaders, key intermediaries and suppliers of people-smuggling equipment have today [July 23] been hit with the ...

A YACHT suspected of carrying illegal migrants was intercepted off the Isle of Wight coast at the weekend. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the vessel, which had travelled from northern France, ...

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are set to sign a treaty on Thursday pledging to ...

People smuggling gangs have taken advantage of thick fog in the English Channel this morning to launch multiple small boats towards UK waters. Hundreds of small boat migrants are currently in the ...

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