9 h. ago ‘A generation lost at sea’: the desperate Rohingya falling prey to traffickers as they flee Bangladesh

Barred from work and school in Bangladesh, thousands of refugees are making the perilous voyage to Malaysia by boat – with some beaten en route to extort even more moneyMajuma Begum stayed awake until 3am waiting for her son to return from the market before accepting he was not coming home. The next day he phoned to say he was on the Bangladeshi coast, waiting to begin a boat journey to Malaysia that she had desperately tried to stop him taking.It was the start of weeks of worry for the 58-year-old, whose fears deepened when a boat carrying Rohingya refugees capsized near Malaysia in early November, killing dozens. She felt as though she could finally breathe again when he finally reached his destination. Continue reading...

Politics

55 h. ago 2 survivors found among bodies on a migrant boat south of Crete say 15 others are missing

Greek authorities say two men who were found alive among 17 dead bodies on a partially sunken migrant boat near Crete have revealed that the vessel had been carrying 34 people

Events

62 h. ago The Curious Case of Mike Lynch by Katie Prescott review – the extraordinary story behind the Bayesian tragedy

A meticulously researched account of the controversial businessman’s rise and shocking demiseAt least two terrible ironies surround the death of Mike Lynch. One lies in the name of his superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of 19 August 2024. He had named the boat Bayesian to honour Bayes’s theorem, a mathematical rule that helps you weigh up the probability of something given the available evidence, which served as Lynch’s guiding light over the course of a tempestuous career. The theorem was “a beautiful key to our minds”, Lynch believed. But it was entirely incapable of predicting the outcome that morning, when the yacht capsized during a storm, killing seven people, including Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and his US lawyer, Chris Morvillo.A second irony lies in the fact that Lynch had just come through the trial of his life, one he felt was bound to end in jail, where he thought he could die. Somehow, to everyone’s astonishment, an American ju...

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5 d. ago Terrorist migrant jailed in Italy is locked up again after returning to Britain in small boat

Rebwar Hamad, 48, arrived in Dover with other migrants on September 19 this year after their dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI.

Events

2 w. ago British vigilantes film themselves smashing migrant boat engines on French beaches to stop crossings

VIGILANTES who led the push to cover our streets in Union flags have filmed themselves smashing small boat engines hidden on French beaches.  The Raise the Colours activists are trying to stop would-be migrants from crossing the Channel.  In their latest clip, they dig up a dinghy engine buried in the dunes by people smugglers.  They can be heard...

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3 w. ago French police plan to use nets to stop small boats ‘risks turning Channel into a graveyard’

France has been under mounting pressure from the UK to intercept migrant vessels at sea amid growing public anger over illegal migration

Events

3 w. ago Let us try safe, legal routes before putting up nets to stop the boats

Editorial: Tough action is needed to bring order to the asylum system, but that cannot include putting migrants’ lives at even greater risk

Politics

3 w. ago Man accused of captaining migrant boat that capsized, killing 4, is charged

Federal officials have charged a man believed to be the captain of a boat carrying migrants that capsized near San Diego, killing four passengers

Events

3 w. ago Four killed after boat carrying migrants from Bangladesh capsizes off Libya

Status of second boat carrying 69 people, including dozens of Sudanese nationals, still unclear

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4 w. ago At least 21 Rohingya refugees dead and dozens missing after boat sinks near Thailand–Malaysia border

Rough seas hamper search operation near Langkawi Island

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last month New Channel farce as ANOTHER 'hokey cokey' migrant returns to Britain by small boat after being deported to France

In a new farce, the unnamed migrant came back to the UK across the Channel yesterday, Remembrance Sunday.

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last month Second small boat migrant sent back to France under 'one in, one out' deal returns to UK

Between November 6 and 8, more than 1,700 people made the dangerous journey across English Channel in small boats

Economics

last month Seven dead and hundreds missing after Rohingya migrant boat sinks off Malaysia

Status of two other migrant boats carrying nearly 230 people remains unclear

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