Sweden says to pay immigrants up to $34,000 to leave
Sweden plans to boost payments to up to $34,000 to immigrants who leave the nation that has been a haven for the war-weary and persecuted, the right-wing government said on Thursday.
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Aid group MSF protests migrant ship detention in Italy
The president of medical charity Doctors Without Borders accused Italy鈥檚 hard-right government Wednesday of seeking to criminalise humanitarian aid to drowning migrants, after authorities detained its rescue ship...
10 migrants die trying to cross Channel
At least 10 migrants died off the northern French coast on Tuesday trying to cross the Channel to England, with a major rescue operation underway after the deadliest such disaster this year.
Migrant influx fuels debate in Spain
A steep rise in the number of arrivals of migrants in Spain鈥檚 Canary Islands from Africa has fuelled a fierce debate in the country over how to tackle illegal immigration.
10 migrants dead in Balkan river tragedy
A nine-month-old baby girl and her mother were among 10 migrants who died when their boat capsized crossing a river that divides Serbia and Bosnia, rescuers said as...
UK bolsters fight against migrant crossings
The UK government on Wednesday announced new measures to curb the arrival of migrants on boats from France and to step up the removal of failed asylum seekers...
700 migrants cross Channel to Britain in small boats
Over 700 migrants in small boats crossed the Channel to Britain on Sunday, the highest number on a single day since Prime Minister Keir Starmer took power vowing to tackle people-smugglers...
700 migrants cross Channel to Britain in small boats
Over 700 migrants in small boats crossed the Channel to Britain on Sunday, the highest number on a single day since Prime Minister Keir Starmer took power vowing to tackle people-smugglers....
What is behind England鈥檚 riots
THE series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England鈥檚 vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold...
Panama dismantles 鈥榁IP鈥� migrant route
Panamanian border police arrested 15 people Wednesday connected to a criminal organization that helped smuggle Chinese migrants across the Darien jungle via a 鈥榁IP route鈥� with fewer challenges to traverse...
75 migrants rescued off Greece
The Greek coastguard on Tuesday said it had rescued 75 migrants in an area where one of the Mediterranean鈥檚 worst migrant shipwrecks occurred last year.
Libya repatriates 369 Nigeria and Mali migrants
Libya repatriated Tuesday 369 irregular migrants to their home countries Nigeria and Mali, including more than one hundred women and children, an official...
Migrants refuse rescue as one dies on cross-Channel bid
A migrant on an overcrowded boat died on Sunday trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain but authorities said dozens on the crammed vessel refused to be...
Afghan, Nepali migrants hurt in Serbia as van overturns
Thirty Afghan and Nepali migrants were injured when a van transporting them overturned in southeastern Serbia, the RTS state-run television reported on...
UK deports illegal migrants to Vietnam, East Timor
Britain鈥檚 new Labour government on Thursday said it had deported 46 people to Vietnam and East Timor, after ditching the previous Conservative administration鈥檚 plan to...
Flight disruption pushes migrant workers to uncertainty about job
Several hundred passengers, mostly migrant workers, could not fly to their destinations due to flight disruption at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday and Saturday...
Probe body for action against recruiting agents
A expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment ministry-formed probe committee has recommended legal action against about 100 recruiting agents for their alleged negligence and failure to send over 17,000 Malaysia-aspirant migrants, who paid the agents huge money for the purpose...
Emergency warning in Mediterranean over migrants
German charity Sea-Eye on Tuesday said it had come to the rescue of migrant boats five times in 24 hours, which showed 鈥榯he state of emergency鈥� in the...
Plan to send migrants from UK to Rwanda 'dead and buried': Starmer
Newly elected UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Saturday began his first full day in charge declaring the ousted Tories' plan to deport migrants to Rwanda 鈥榙ead and buried鈥� and pledging growth as his government's 鈥榥umber one mission鈥�.
Death of migrant workers must be investigated
THE plights of exploited migrant workers have fallen on deaf ears of successive governments as the number of death in destination countries continues to increase. The Wage Earners and Welfare Board says that at least 4,261 Bangladeshis died abroad in July 2023鈥揓une 2024. Official statistics also report a staggering 41,053 death in 2002鈥�2021...
4,261 migrant workers return dead in a year
An increasing number of Bangladeshi migrants have been embracing unexpected death in destination countries as at least 4,261 bodies of migrant workers have...
11,450 Bangladeshis languish in foreign jails
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud told Jatiya Sangsad on Monday that a total of 11,450 Bangladeshis, including migrant workers, were languishing in jails in 31 countries....
150 migrants rescued in English Channel
French authorities said on Thursday that more than 150 migrants trying to reach Britain had been rescued from overloaded boats in the Strait of Dover and...
Starmer faces backlash over comments singling out Bangladeshi migrants
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from his own party after he singled out Bangladesh as a country where illegal migrants are not being deported quickly enough, reports ITVX...
Indians march to end 鈥榮lavery鈥� after worker death shakes Italy
Thousands of Indian farm labourers urged an end to 鈥榮lavery鈥� in Italy on Tuesday after the gruesome death of a worker shone a light on the brutal exploitation of undocumented migrants...
Record number of migrants cross Channel to UK in single day this year
More than 880 irregular migrants crossed the Channel to Britain on small boats on Tuesday, the UK government said, the highest number in a single day...
Boats carrying migrants from Bangladesh, other countries sink off coast of Italy
One of the two boats that sank off the coast of southern Italy in which at least 11 people died and over 60 went missing was carrying migrants from countries including Bangladesh, according to BBC....
Indian relatives grieve as bodies of 45 Kuwait fire victims return
Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport on Friday as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home...
49 migrants dead after boat sinks off Yemen
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants sank off Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead, mostly women and children, in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route from Africa, a UN agency said on Tuesday...
11 bodies retrieved from Mediterranean off Libya
The bodies of 11 people, believed to be migrants, were retrieved off the Libyan coast on Friday, the Doctors Without Borders said on X.