Illegal immigration

Woman, boy drown off Greece after migrant boat sinks

Migrants at the port of Agia Galini in Crete, Greece, on Dec 19, 2025. According to the UN refugee agency, 107 people died or went missing in 2025 off the Greek coast.

Thousands defy ICE, frigid weather to protest against US immigration crackdown and child’s detention

A person holds a "No Kings" sign as people march during the "ICE out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom" protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Jan 23, 2026.

UN human rights chief slams ‘routine abuse’ of migrants in US

Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, attends the Human Rights Council at the UN European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 8, 2025. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Minnesota leaders subpoenaed in US criminal probe over opposition to immigration crackdown

US President Donald Trump has sent thousands of Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into the Minneapolis area.

News analysis

A year into his return, Trump wields executive power with few restraints

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Not ‘Indian’ enough: Lynch mobs in India find a new target

Unlike the far-right attacks over the past decade that targeted minority communities in India for their race, caste or faith, mob violence today is defined by a new, warped xenophobia.

‘Good-looking’ babies smuggled via Jakarta into Singapore, where adoptive parents paid over $20k

Wealthy Singaporean adoptive parents paid more than S$20,000 per child, in defiance of Indonesian law that requires adoption to be free.

UK politician joins hard-right Reform just hours after opposition Conservatives sack him

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (right) posing for the media with Britain's former shadow justice secretary, Mr Robert Jenrick, after his defection from the Conservative Party to Reform on Jan 15.

Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act as Minnesota anti-ICE protests grow

A person covers a tear gas canister used by federal agents during an immigration raid days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 13, 2026. REUTERS/Ryan Murphy

Another immigration-related shooting fuels chaos in Minneapolis

Protesters throwing rocks, ice and fireworks clashed with law enforcement agents who fired tear gas and crowd-control munitions late into the night.

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