14 h. ago Home Office failure to record when migrants on visas leave UK 'means border system will continue to fail'

Former Labour minister Clive Betts urged the Home Office to properly record when migrants leave the UK after their visa expires

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17 h. ago Labour MP raises concerns over Home Office failure to record when migrants on visas leave UK

Former minister Clive Betts urged the Home Office to properly record when migrants leave the UK after their visa expires

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3 d. ago India and Pakistan’s dispute over Kashmir – explained in 30 seconds

Countries have fought three wars over Himalayan region, which is divided by heavily armed borderControl of Kashmir, in the foothills of the Himalayas, has been disputed since India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947.Both claim it in full, but each controls a section of the territory, separated by one of the world’s most heavily militarised borders: the “line of control” based on a ceasefire border established after their 1947-48 war. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as ‘extremist’

Far-right German party was labeled a ‘confirmed rightwing extremist group’ by country’s domestic intelligence serviceGermany’s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany’s decision to label the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party as a “confirmed rightwing extremist group”.On Thursday, Rubio took to X and wrote: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy – it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD – which took second in the recent election – but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Gangs 'taking advantage' as migrant Channel crossings pass 10,000 in record time

New tactics designed to disrupt people smuggling gangs will come into force over the next few months

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9 d. ago PM grilled on grooming gangs and record migrant Channel crossings in PMQs showdown ahead of local elections

During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Sir Keir insisted that the Government is more committed to delivering "truth and justice" for victims of rape grooming gangs than the Conservative Party

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1 week ago Senate Democrats to mark Trump’s ‘100 days from hell’ with marathon speeches

Minority leader Chuck Schumer accuses president of ‘acting like a king, a despot, a wannabe dictator’Trump’s first 100 daysUS politics live – latest updatesDemocratic senators will on Tuesday mark Donald Trump’s 100th day in office with marathon floor speeches intended to highlight his administration’s failures, seizing on his divisive tariff policy and attacks on the judiciary to argue he was not joking when he mulled governing as “a dictator”.Republicans, meanwhile, praised the president’s actions over the first 100 days, though the House speaker, Mike Johnson, acknowledged “some bumps along the road” he described as the necessary byproduct of the radical changes Trump campaigned on. Continue reading...

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1 week ago People smuggling gangs 'taking advantage' as migrant Channel crossings pass 10,000 in record time

New tactics to distrupt people smuggling gangs will come into force over the next few months

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1 week ago Number of migrants crossing Channel passes 10,000 in record time

Last year the figure of 10,000 was not reached until May 24, while in 2023 it was June 17.

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1 week ago The missing lynx: how the rise of border walls has split up wildlife populations

In an age of growing hostility to migrants, there are 10 times more barriers on borders than when the Berlin Wall fell. But as well as the human cost, animals are unintended victimsThe lynxes of the Białowieża forest once freely prowled through 1,420 sq km (548 sq miles) of ancient woodland. Then, in 2022, the habitat was abruptly sliced in two. Poland built a 115-mile (186km) wall across its border with Belarus to stop refugees and migrants entering the EU. About 15 lynxes were left stranded on the Polish side of the forest, forced into a genetic bottleneck.The 5.5-metre high barrier, which is topped with wire and cameras, also dissects the forest’s population of bison, wolves and elk. Researchers monitored 10 sites along the border, walking along sections and counting signs of humans and wildlife. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pakistan deploys its artillery to India's border amid fears war could soon EXPLODE between the nuclear

Pakistan has deployed artillery to India's border as tensions continue to grow with its nuclear-armed rival India following a tourist massacre in Kashmir. 

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2 w. ago ‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia stateTwenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before continuing northward.Since then, superstorms fueled by the climate crisis have become relatively commonplace in the country, but the impact of Katrina endures to this day. Immediately following the storm, the country and world were enthralled by tragic stories out of New Orleans, where the levees failed to a catastrophic effect and the local, state and federal responses were disastrous. But Mississippi, which received the maximum impact from the storm surge, was largely left out of the nationa...

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2 w. ago Number of Channel migrants is up a THIRD on previous record as 9,500 reach Britain in just four months this year

Official figures show the hefty figure compares to to 6,691 in the same period in the record-breaking year of 2022. And 5,916 had reached the UK in the same time frame last year.

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2 w. ago US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days

Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports.As the NPR affiliate Arizona Public Media, first reported, 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, a New Mexico resident visiting Arizona, was detained by border patrol agents in Nogales, a city along the Mexico border about an hour south of Tucson. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Convicted murderer John Mansfield, 63, is 'killed by another prisoner' in high

A convicted murderer has been killed by another prisoner in another jail security failure just a day after three prison officers were brutally attacked.

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3 w. ago More migrants arrive in UK after record English Channel crossings

Pictures showed people wearing life jackets coming ashore from a Border Force vessel in Dover on Monday.

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3 w. ago Record migrant crossings for 2025 as over 8,000 make small boats English Channel journey so far

A new record has been set with 8,064 migrants coming to the UK in small boats in the first four months of 2025

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3 w. ago Record number of migrants arrive in UK after crossing English Channel in first four months of year

There have been 8,064 arrivals so far in 2025

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3 w. ago Record number of migrants arrived in the UK in the first four months of 2025 in huge embarrassment for 'smash the gangs' Keir Starmer

Despite Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer 's promise to 'smash the gangs' crossing from France on small boats, there have already been 8,064 arrivals so far this year.

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3 w. ago Price hike on Shein? How Trump tariffs could shift the US’s love of fast fashion

Trump ended the ‘de-minimis’ rule while launching a trade war with China – which will make retail giants such as Temu more expensive, experts sayAfter a chaotic week of flip-flopping tariff policies, cheap clothes from China are nearly certain to face a steep price hike soon – prompting concern among fast fashion retailers and potentially pushing consumers to look for other alternatives.As part of a package of global tariff policies announced on “liberation day” last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order that ended a duty-free exemption for low-priced goods to enter the US from China and Hong Kong. Known as the “de-minimis” rule, packages under $800 do not qualify for any taxes or tariffs on the goods and are inspected minimally at the border. Continue reading...

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