44 h. ago Greta Thunberg and Gaza flotilla activists to be forced to watch October 7 footage after aid boat seized

The Madleen has been diverted to Israeli shores after it was intercepted by the military

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4 d. ago Watch: Terrified passengers cling on as boat carrying 89 tourists sinks in Bali

Watch as a boat carrying 89 passengers capsized off the coast of Bali on Wednesday (4 June), with terrified tourists screaming as they tried to scramble to safety.

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer can dress up the migrant figures, but he's betrayed the British people: ALP MEHMET

ALP MEHMET: The truth is that on Starmer's watch, the number of small-boat migrants removed in the 12 months to March fell 3 per cent year-on-year to 2,240.

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8 d. ago Migrant crossings could hit 50k this year as minister voices ‘frustration’ at French police watching boats go

Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard said the government wants to see ‘French police take more action’

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8 d. ago Migrant crossings could hit 50,000 this year as minister expresses 'frustration' at French police

Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard said the government wants to see ‘French police take more action’

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9 d. ago Watch: Migrants cling to overloaded small boat as over 1,000 cross Channel in one day

Scores of migrants were filmed clinging to dangerously overloaded small boats on Saturday (31 March) on Saturday morning, as over 1,000 reportedly crossed the Channel in a single day.

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1 week ago French police stand back and watch as migrant families including small children pack themselves onto small boats heading across the Channel to the UK

It is thought six migrant boats left France in the first attempt to cross the English Channel in days on Saturday.

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1 week ago AP PHOTOS: Dragon boats thunder through Hong Kong waters to mark ancient Chinese festival

Throngs of people flocked to southern Hong Kong on Saturday to watch the iconic dragon boat races, a highlight of a Chinese festival with over 2,000 years of history.

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3 w. ago The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future ChinaThe sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and a rowdy neighbour in Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. It played the wine-dark seducer in Homer’s Odyssey and the snot-green tormentor in Joyce’s Ulysses. But while its colour can change and its humour may vary, its fictional properties remain reassuringly stable. The sea is our unconscious, a repository of memory, the beginning and end of all things. It’s what Jules Verne described as the “Living Infinite”.In Madeleine Thien’s rapturous fourth novel, The Book of Records, “the Sea” is the name given to a gargantuan migrant compound, sprawled on the shoreline a decade or two in the future. Lina and her ailing father, Wui Shin, occupy an apartment on the labyrinthine 12th floor, from where they can watch the refugee boats pull in and depart. The pair have...

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3 w. ago Brooklyn Bridge is hit by ship carrying 277 people as search and rescue operation is launched

Shocking footage posted online shows the moment the vessel collided with the bridge on Saturday night.

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3 w. ago Brooklyn Bridge is hit by ship carrying 200 people as search and rescue operation is launched

Shocking footage posted online shows the moment the vessel collided with the bridge on Friday night.

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